Factory Farms

The mass production of cheap meat. Where the livestock is kept in poor conditions, barely even living...just fattening for the slaughter.

The Factory Farms, also known as Mass Production Farms, are farms located in the Demon World that mass produce cheap human meat of poor quality. As mentioned by Sonju, there are hundreds of such farms as compared to the mere number of Premium Farms, which are polar opposites of Factory Farms in terms of the quality of orphan meat they produce. Children from these farms are usually sold to demon civilians, while the high quality children from the Premium Farms are reserved for wealthy and high ranking demons. The Factory Farms were built due the "Promise" made between the Demons and the Ratri family.

History
1,000 years ago, the world was plagued by a war between humans and demons. In an attempt to end the war, a proposal —otherwise known as The Promise— was formed by the first head of the Ratri family and. It declared that "Human beings shan't hunt 'demons' anymore. In return, 'demons' shan't hunt humans." Afterwards, the world was broken into two — one side belonging to the demons while the other belonging to the humans. As per the agreement, as small number of humans were left behind in the Demon World to satisfy the demons need to eat humans. These humans, who came to be referred to as "orphans" or "cattle children", were later kept in plantations under the guise of "orphanages" known as Premium Farms or Factory Farms to be raised as livestock for the demons to consume.

There were previous versions of Factory Farms that were simply called lower grade farms. Around 700 years ago, the Demon World was experience a shortage of meat from the lower grade farms. This was due to demand far exceeding the supply. Since traditional human farms could not achieve efficient results, the nobles of the Demon World reached out to work with the Ratri Clan to developed a new concept called the Factory Farms which mass produce cheap human meat in a faster and more efficient way on a much larger scale to meet the demand of the people. As a result, the lower grade farms are shut down and replaced by the more modern Factory Farms.

While there are only four Premium Farms which produce high quality meat for wealthy and high ranking demons, there are hundreds of Factory Farms which are for mass production of cheap meat for demon civilians. Unlike the Premium Farms, which value brain size and intelligence in their livestock, the Factory Farms only value body size. As a result, there is no need to teach the orphans at the Factory Farms anything or allow their brains to develop, and instead they solely focus on fattening up the orphan's bodies for slaughter. By eating the low quality, unintelligent human meat from the Factory Farms, the demon civilians will not degenerate, but they also will not gain much intelligence. This is important because the wealthy and high ranking demons want to keep the civilians intelligence low by serving them low quality, unintelligent human meat which allows them to control and take advantage of the civilians. Nonetheless, the civilian's ability to not degenerate by eating low quality, unintelligent human meat is gradually weakening and many Demon Villages are ravaged by poverty as the supply of Factory Farmed orphans cannot keep up with the demand. The civilians are greatly unsatisfied with the low quality of the human meat that is available to them and their discontent has become a social issue among the demons.

In November 2047, the Factory Farms were abolished after the enactment of Emma's Promise, which declared all farms be shut down and all of the surviving orphans be sent to live in the Human World.

Buildings
One of the Factory Farms "William Minerva" and his team raided resembles that of a normal factory. Two of "Minerva"'s teammates described how the Factory Farm's exterior is clean-looking, whilst the interior, specifically the room which keeps the orphans, emits a bad odor, even from a distance. The rooms that keep the orphans have multiple rows of large stadium-like benches stacked on top of each other with hundreds of orphans crammed on to each bench.

Branding
According to the archives in Shelter B06-32, the Factory Farms simply used brands instead of farm identifiers to mark the orphans. The brands would be engraved onto a certain part of a Factory Farm orphan's body, such as on the collar bone, the back of a hand, on the head or on the upper part of an arm.

Conditions at the Factory Farm
The orphans in these farms are kept in terrible, unsanitary conditions. As soon as they are born, they are attached to machines which will keep them in a comatose state for the rest of their lives. As a result, the children in these farms do not learn languages, have names, have free will, and cannot think of escaping. The children are confined to cramped benches their whole lives. Each child has an oxygen tube attached to their mouth which keeps them breathing as well as an IV attached to their left arm which feeds them. Their wrists are shackled to a pipe that overlaps the benches which connects to their oxygen tubes. Some (but not all) Factory Farms also shackle the orphans ankles to the benches. The orphans at the Factory Farms only wear a dirty white sleeveless tunic. The orphans all have sunken in eyes and filthy skin due to never being bathed or changed. The orphans at the Factory Farms are kept alive through machines, like monitors, to keep their organs functioning and give them oxygen, thus the machines are vital in keeping the orphans alive. As explained by William Minerva, if any of the Factory Farm orphans are removed from the machines they are strapped in, they will immediately die. Due to the many demon civilians living in poverty and being unable to purchase human meat, it is common for desperate civilians to break into the Factory Farms and attempt to steal the orphans. As a result, the Factory Farms are well-guarded and have several security precautions in place.Once the orphans reach their desired weight, they are tossed onto conveyor belts in mass to be "processed", meaning their bodies are butchered and chopped up into multiple pieces. Their body parts are then divided up and placed into jars to preserve them. They are then shipped to one of the many markets in the Demon Villages to be sold as food to demon civilians. Different parts of the body vary in value with the head and brain being the most valuable, despite Factory Farm livestock not being as intelligent as the Premium Farm ones.

Just like at the Premium Farms, occasionally a child at a Factory Farm will be shipped out to be transferred to a different plantation or location. This is shown with Hayato and Jin, who were both born at a Factory Farm, but were shipped out to be transferred to Lambda 7214.

Orphans

 * Numerous unnamed Factory Farm Orphans (Some deceased and some still alive)

Trivia

 * When asked what the annual income of demons working on a farm in real-world money would be, Kaiu Shirai said the Grace Field Boss Demon's would be tens of millions of yen level in modern Japan. He also said that the demons income depends on the farm they work for, with the highest grade farms paying the most and the Factory Farms paying the least. However, Factory Farm jobs still have a higher salary and authority than a general job.
 * Most of the children born at the Factory Farms were created via cloning as the Ratri Clan's technology is advanced enough that they can create hundreds of new humans from a single strand of human hair.
 * This also explains why so many of the Factory Farm orphans look similar, or in some cases identical, to each other.