THE FACTORY

experimental view C of 5: factory game ← back to the map

The industrial animal-agriculture system, drawn as a management-sim you can watch running. Every machine, belt and counter below is built from real, cited figures. Nobody wins this one. Click any building for its numbers.

This factory floor was built for a bigger screen. It still works here, but the pipeline scrolls sideways.
🐔 chickens killed 0 since you opened this tab · 2,415/sec2
🐄 land animals killed 0 worldwide · 2,630/sec1
🐟 farmed fish killed 0 central est. 2,440/sec (range 919 to 4,722)1
🐣 male chicks culled 0 egg industry · 222/sec38
💰 meat sold $0 ~$1.4T/yr · $44,366/sec43
🌾 feed ratio 4.5 : 1 kg feed per kg chicken (beef 25:1)14
💧 water cost 15,400 litres per kg of beef15
Counters tick from the moment this page loaded, using real annual worldwide rates. They are estimates of scale, not a live feed.

Factory floor

A single production line: fossil gas and feed crops in at the left, a plate at the right. The red ● on a building marks a market controlled by a handful of firms. Belts run left to right; some cargo never makes it.

animals feed / crops money loss / market power

Attrition funnel: 1,000 broiler chickens

Follow 1,000 chickens hatched for meat. Units drop off the belt into loss bins at each stage. The largest leak is not on the farm, it is the food scraped off the plate.9

Percentages use different denominators (live birds vs inspected weight vs total food mass), so they are stacked for legibility, not summed. On-farm and slaughter losses are small; retail and consumer waste dominate.

Sources

Every figure above links to its source here. Where verification flagged a number as off, the corrected value is shown. Ranges are kept as ranges.