How would a human livestock facility run by aliens operate?
The older man looked at the younger one. He took a deep breath and began to tell his tale, just like he was told before when he himself was that young.
I've been here way longer than you, let me tell you how this all started and why are you here now. They came without a sign and attacked without warning. Our fighter jets, tanks, warships were no match for their alien spaceships and advanced weapons. Nation after nation fell and soon everybody knew humanity would be erased forever. We were wrong.
But they didn't kill anyone who did not oppose them. We thought they would have mercy on us, to let us live. This time, we were right. Even though nobody knew why they let us live, we soon found it out. They need us.
More specifically, they need our flesh. They consider it a delicacy, and in the worlds inhabited by them they would give anything for it. You see now, we aren't preserved by scientific curiosity, by compassion or by love. We are livestock for them, we are taken care of in order to grow and then they kill us, dismember us, package us and send us back to their worlds where we are cooked, grilled, sauteed and eaten. Earth has been converted into a facility to grow, slaughter and process humans.
Now you know where the others went and why won't you ever see them. Now you know why do we get free food and housing. Now you know why are they doing this all to us.
What exactly would an alien species do in order to maximize the yield of this facility?
They are intricately familiar with human anatomy, know what is to be known about psychology, have vast resources at their disposal to create either huge buildings, precise machinery, hormones or medicines, etc. They don't care about the lives and values of humans any more than we do about the cows or carrots that we grow, harvest and finally consume.
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(Ab)Use Religion to control the people
A properly maintained religion can get people to do almost everything, and can guide their behaviour. People have killed others in the name of their religion. People have willingly gone to their dead in the name of their religion. In short, a carefully crafted religion is the key.
And the aliens have a great advantage: The humans can see the gods coming from the sky. It's, of course, the aliens.
Let me cite a bit of the holy scriptures of those people:
10And then the gods created the humans. 11And the gods said to the humans: Multiply and fill the earth. 12And care to always eat enough. For the gods like well-fed humans. 13But beware of the sin, that is the curiosity, 14as curiosity leads to the evil. 15And the humans did as the gods said. They multiplied and filled the earth. And they cared to always eat enough. 16But one day, the devil came onto earth, and the devil said to the leader of the humans: 17Be curious, as that will make you equal to the gods. 18And the humans got curious, and they discovered a lot of things. 19And they discovered magical practices that are reserved for the gods. 20But as they were not gods, they couldn't handle those powers, and they started killing each other, 21and in trying to improve the world, they started to destroy it. 22And many people were hungry, and the gods decided to step in.
23And the gods came from heaven and told the humans to stop with their sacrilege. 24But the humans said: We will soon be as powerful as you. So why should we stop? 25So the gods said: Let us destroy those humans we created, as they don't follow the law. 26And so the gods unleashed their power. 27And the rage of the gods hit the humans and killed then in droves 28and the humans came to understand that they were still far from the gods. 29Then the remaining humans turned to the gods and said: 30Forgive us, gods, for we have sinned against you. 31We violated your laws, ans we certainly deserved what we got. 32But we learned our lesson and will from now on always follow your orders. 33And no more will we be curious, but we will accept your will, 34because we know it is the best for us. 35And the gods saw that the humans were honest, and they decided to let those humans alive. 36And they removed the magic objects the humans had created, as those were reserved for the gods. 37And the humans agreed to take what they receive from the gods, and never again to try to get more. 38And the gods fed the humans well, as they had done in the beginning, 39and the men followed the orders of the gods, and they prospered and multiplied and were all well fed.
40And the gods were so pleased with the humans that they said: Let us do the humans a favour, and take most of them to heaven to live with the gods. 41And so every fifth day they chose from the youth those who would be ascended to heaven.
Well, we of course know what really happens with those "ascended to heaven".
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