Life on the Human Farm (A4F)

It's a capitalistic dystopia. After decades of corporations being given free reign of their land and resources, humanity now lives in a bizarre perversion of natural order. Cities are being expanded underground due to heavy air pollution no longer making skyscrapers viable. The near extinction of most of Earth's flora and fauna has resulted in corporations having monopolies on any animal or plant product. 

With prices being raised to disturbing levels, a once niche market has begun to rise into common acceptance: human products. Not organs, limbs, or soylent green; but sperm from male donors and artificial wombs with donor eggs, milk from human women, even newborn babies are being selected and bred like puppies. As the common worker is forced to work too hard to engage in sex, they have turned to these human farming services to have and take care of families. Some have found the pressures of modern living too much, and have turned to becoming a human cow (or hucow) and becoming the chattle they themselves used to use. 

Naturally, this too has suffered from exploitation. Some farms (called meat farms) treat their humans like the cattle whose names they borrow: keeping them extremely regulated and confined, often forcing them to breed and be milked for over 14 hours a day. 

The ethical farms (called home farms) are generally more expensive due to much lower yield, but they allow the people to keep their humanity as much as possible; much lighter schedules, stricter rules imposed on farmers by a union, and the hucows retain the right to leave. 

This story is a classic for some, and niche for others. It will feature a farmer (me) running an ethical farm. While still small, the work is very stressful and tiring, and he (or she if you'd prefer) has chosen one of their less popular cows to help out. Will the relationship stay professional? Will the farm change in the face of struggle? 

Hit me up and we'll hash it out!