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 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.

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 to meet the demand of the people.

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 civilians will not degenerate, but they also will not gain much intelligence. This is significant because the wealthy and high ranking demons want to keep the civilians intelligent low by serving them low quality, unintelligent human meat which allows the wealthy and high ranking demons to take advantage of them.

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 children 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. Their wrists are shackled to a bar that overlaps the benches and 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. The orphans at the Factory Farms only wear a dirty white sleeveless tunic. They also have sunken in eyes and filthy skin due to never being bathed. 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. The Factory Farms are also well-guarded against Poachers who try to steal the children from the plantations.

Once the orphans reached their desired weight, they are slaughtered in mass, their bodies are chopped up into multiple pieces and their body parts are divided up and placed into jars and then sold at markets in the Demon Villages.

Orphans

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