A group of young boys played with baby Marisa in a bottle. The Marisa can't get out because she's bigger than the bottle's mouth. His friends are curious how this is made. They hide the Marisa (after knocking it out) in the trash can and totally forget about her. The class rep girl found Marisa and brought her home as pet (she's no yukkuri lover).
Bottled yukkuri are made by pushing stalk into bottle. The standard procedure is to destroy all the fruits leaving one and force feed the yukkuri a booster food (made of paste mixed with orange juice), usually through hole made by taking out one eye.
After that, the baby yukkuri are feeded with spray of sugar water. It's better to do this rather than feed them because they wont shit. It made them last longer.
At the girl's place, she feeded Marisa with chocolate. After that, she tell Marisa to eat her own shit if she doesn't like it. Interestingly, when the girl say that poo poo are just their old paste, baby Marisa said that true, it's sweet, but not easy.
Her parents found Marisa and her mother don't like yukkuri. She shut Marisa's crying just by giving killing intent. The girl's father suggest putting weight into the bottle and then sunk it in water. They have an old aquarium that can be used for it. This way, Marisa can cry as loud as she want and it won't cause much noise.
Some times later, the boys told the story of how their bottled yukkuri ends. One tried putting many types in a bottle. Patchouli died first and rot. The smell made other yukkuri stressed and die soon after. Another tried several yukkuri inside. But when a Reimu's mouth touched the other yukkuri, she starts eating that other yukkuri. Well, they're feeded by splashing sugar water so their skin tasted sweet. Another bottle suddenly lost half of its population. Inside, there's one big yukkuri, probably a scum. Other one had the Marisa grow too big, it couldn't move anymore. Worst part (for the yukkuri), it's impossible to feed it anymore, so it will die.
The girl is bored with her own bottled yukkuri. Recently Marisa has been gloomy and not so energetic anymore. She listened and wondered, how did the boys make bottled yukkuri.
I wouldn't say how the chickens are raised is humane at all, but lets not draw parallels. I'm not sure "they're at least eaten" is a good way to justify how the chickens are raised in the farms, but that's a different discussion.
I'd say ant farms and whatever raise a good interesting point. I'd be interesting in a quick short story of sorts about it sometime this weekend... just to get the idea rolling.
You do know that the paralel of this in food industry, the Mega Factory Farm, isn't the average in food production, right? Livestock have better lives compared to this "bottle yu's" and they are at least put there to become food, instead of being put there for entertainment and curiosity like this bottle yu's.
Though being honest, this is rather typical in yukkuri treatment, I honestly had seen way worse stuff done to the yu's.
It did raise a good topic for discussion, how could you raise a, let's say, house-yu or minikurri inside a bottle succesfully like a proper enclosed pet? Kinda like those ant farms even if it means modifying the bottle a bit to fulfill some of it's needs. The idea is that it should be small so no "closed" yukkuarium or anything like that.
I was talking in general, like with cows, pigs, sheeps, etc. I know that in the mega farm factory method, chickens are put in equally crammed and horrible cages like the rest not taken out for anything just fattened until they were ready for the slaughterhouse, but I never got to know how average big farms do chicken outside of the egg making. The closest thing I recall is this farm I visited once with my school on which chicken farming was like this: They were all put in this big ass open pen, and I mean really big, where they could walk around and stuff and then they would be returned to their cages when it's night time, but I don't think that's the average right?
Now about the Ant Farm Yu like idea:
The thing with the ant farm like yu's, is that It would need some planning, at least for a story, you basically need to visualize how it would look, try to think what they would need, and how the "owner" would interact with it, specially if it needs to add food or take away the poo poo.
Regardless of the living condition, farm animals are breeded to be harvested. Bottled yukkuri is only made as disposable "cute toy" to be abyused and thrown away when they got boring.
Thanks for the summary. Salem hits it on the head with the treatment- and I don't think it's a good idea to compare these yukkuris with farm animals, as they're different purposes with very different things (we all know yukkuris get treated very differently to animals).
On another note, JIE and I have both posted little shorts based on the idea. Feedbacks to both are welcome as the boards have been a little quiet as of late!
Yeah, I was thinking the same than Salem, kinda why I thought the farm comparison was off, though it's not weird for some people to make paralels of "crammed cute abyuse yu toy" with "crammed real livestock", even if it isn't correct and the situation is more like Salem said. And Shameless advetisment for our stories FTW! :P
If yukkuri is to be compared to crammed farm animals, usually it's the yukkuri in Factory production line, not those sold to consumers.
JusticeItEasy said: It did raise a good topic for discussion, how could you raise a, let's say, house-yu or minikurri inside a bottle succesfully like a proper enclosed pet?
There's an anko about raising yukkuri in closed yukkurarium. But the author took shortcut and introduced a special moss that's delicious for yukkuri, grow quick, and consume yukkuri's paste (supposedly their dungs). That make a closed food chain with only two elements consuming each others in a fragile balance.
BTW, the lovable cute name for bottled yukkuri: Yunya Bottle (because it cries yunya! yunya! ^^;; )
poweryoga said: I wouldn't say how the chickens are raised is humane at all, but lets not draw parallels. I'm not sure "they're at least eaten" is a good way to justify how the chickens are raised in the farms, but that's a different discussion.
I'd say ant farms and whatever raise a good interesting point. I'd be interesting in a quick short story of sorts about it sometime this weekend... just to get the idea rolling.
i don't care to much about how chickens are treated i don't have simpathy for any creature so stupid that it's body can't tell the difference when it brain is missing
Yuuuuu?! Why can't Mawisha get out jeeeee?!Bottled Yukkuri