This image turn my theory upside down. The boy know nothing.He got decieved by adults completely. He hear no yukkuri 's crying.He see only huge appetite of yukkuries. He see no alice 's raping.He see only koyukkri in conveyor belts. He see no food processing.Thumb down to the factory. For missing such a entertainment.
No, EndEarth, he still sees their tears everywhere. He still sees their distressed, panicking faces. He sees how they furiously fight over peanuts. He also pointed out that they were turned into food and if has half a brain he can figure out what that means.
Also, this Marisa is a rare exception. Usually their mouths are burned shut completely and they can't speak anyways.
Or it's called apathy, accepting reality and adapting it for the sake of more impresionable minds or to avoid unnecessary worries of "OMG my son draws sad and violent stuff instead of happy stuff, he must have some serious psycological issue, let's send him to waste times years in psycological therapy even if he may be right in his mind and the poor thing had to witness some seriously shitbreaking thing."
Either that or the theory about Yukkuris actually not being able to speak with humans in some cases and what we are able read is a convenient translation of their yuing (not all the cases mind you).
Despite what you think of them, if any of my food suddenly shouted out "WE'RE LIVING CREAAAATUUUURES!" I'd think that I'd have nightmares for a month, and go vegetarian.
I agree with Alice. If my (supermarket bought and quite dead) food starting screaming 'I AM ALIVE', I'd be worried about my mental health too.
That said, this story is still grim as hell...
I'd say this is an analogy for mass-produced food, but really, modern farming is nowhere near this horrible. Hell, it isn't horrible at all; when it comes to raising lifestock, it's kinda important for it *not* to be (stress makes produce worse). As such... eh, I have no idea.
Point's still slightly moot, Yukkuri being fictional and all (thankfully...). If this were real, I can see PETA going absolutely fucknuts. As in, more than usual.
Well you 2 have to consider that, this is the factory they are produced, the final product actually resembles some sort of biscuit, muffing or something with the shape of a yukkuri, a candy in a sort of way, so you wouldn't really see it as something alive, kinda like nuggets.
Of course this story is pretty grim and the facility itself seems to miss the point about what truly quality yukkuri products are, in a sort of way, they go for a ultra cheapo style of production based on the assumption that more suffering = sweeter, but, won't realize that too much suffering leads to spoiling, you need to do something in between mercy killing and torture in concentration camp levels, if not, the product will be as bad as the one we see at the end of the comic.
You're half-right Marisa. You're living, but you're still food. Well, actually you're about to not be living anymore, so I suppose you're still wrong entirely.