Isn't it a problem in Japan of people beating up homeless? God knows how many anime have it and I hear a lot about it in passing when my friends talk about it.
Since we have the rule that you can't post FF on abuse and abuse on FF in terms of comments, it seems safe that edits for either group will stay within that community providing no one decides to white-knight for either group.
But if the rule is no-edits, I will abide by it and just upload the better quality ones to danbooru.
Interesting point is that it mentions "we" towards the end, and its main desire isn't to be just well-off, but have a happy family as well. The desire for good food, a good family, and a good home seems like a pretty selfless desire when I think about it, all it wants its the basic things that it was denied (poor food, no familiar interaction, and poor living conditions), even down to the ability to cherish what it has if its freed. It seems to indicate that the factory has a coldness to it, it sees these as lesser beings and sees nothing wrong with showing the kids these acts, something most meat-factories shy away from. This is almost lovecraftian in the idea of a stronger creature, sufficiently advanced in technology or mental capability, to seem almost divine or godlike, controlling the affairs of other creatures in ways that seem cruel and alien. In this way, since we are those creatures, they aren't that impressive. The supposed great creature is nothing more than a factory worker who sees minuscule creatures, beneath his notice, and the rest of this society moves on.
Perhaps the aliens out there view us the same way, we are too primitive and selfish, much like some of us view yukkuris, to sympathize with. However, they do not have the hatred of what we are, just a cold indifference which is demonstrated here. The idea that aliens react the same way to us when reading human-abuse stories on their version of the internet, while others argue with them for being cruel to the simple flesh-based lifeforms, is amusing to me.
The kid is simply shown this without any real explanation, it seems, and the workers themselves remove themselves from the reality of what is occurring, and the kid simply follows suit.
Coming to think of it, this is something that could break a person providing this is not being described as some type of initiation that "all must see the truth" about things, but the kid seems to have the reaction of deluding himself into thinking that its a lot happier than what it is. I wonder how many people would appreciate how the factory operates, normal people, since it is gruesome and if nothing else, inhumane. People who are for animal rights will surely flock to the sentient creatures that are yukkuri, with their capability of speech and that they look like a head. To me, this isn't something that can last so I like to think that the kid grows up to stop the factory and allow yukkuri to take it easy.
Yes this is an abuse story, I'm not saying anyone should die, but I felt that there was some missing potential to show the darkside of abuse.
This is just to add insult to injury. They live all their lives just to be eaten, and they are then disposed as. The one silver-lining they could have had is denied to them, and everyone looks the other way. The difference is that instead of another animal, which is killed in a utilitarian way to allow for food to be made, they are killed for the sake of being killed. In a way, its an existential piece in that they have no past or future, the dice they've been giving is designed to allow for one outcome, and they are not allowed to have a real illusion of anything else but the end.
For this story, it would take a vitriolic hatred of these things to enjoy it, but to me its a nice reminder how horrifying things are we take for granted. We can choose how we are going to die, even though its an inevitability, and if we do not have that choice, we usually are given a pleasant illusion to sooth the pain.