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== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[
** A twisted version appears in one episode: the "monster" is actually harmless, something along the lines of a tremendous alien bovine with an incredible [[Healing Factor]]. The people who capture it [[Squick|harvest it as an endless source of meat]]. True, the meat is apparently safe for human consumption, but in contrast to the show's tendency for [[Aliens Are Bastards]], this monster is actually a non violent, peaceful slug like being that is being cut apart for meat ''while it's still alive'', and the true villain is the asshole in charge, who ignores the Torchwood-3 team, his own conscience ridden [[Mooks]], not to mention his own conscience, blithely ignoring the agony he's causing a perfectly innocent alien by telling everyone [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|"it's only meat."]]
** In the episode "Reset", a medical firm that is in some way an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Torchwood-3 harvests alien material to make medical advances for the benefit of humanity. Unfortunately, the leader is a [[Mad Scientist]] who coldly tortures and exploits aliens like the villain of "Meat", and he callously eliminates humans he has used as guinea pigs for his alien derived treatments if it might expose what he has done.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', a lots of critters become a part of industry - mostly domesticable (if you can get them into cage trap and then train) - but not limited to these.
** [[Giant Spider|Giant cave spider]] is one of the most dangerous of all widespreead critters, but giant cave spider '''silk''' produces the second most valuable cloth in the game (and the most valuable cloth from a renewable resource). Clever players look for ways to corral one into an inescapable area where it can still see and spit silk at their Dwarves, domesticated animals, or captured prisoners. Randomly generated creatures also sometimes have web-slinging, but they are harder to catch and contain, and it's not especially valuable (though still comes free and indefinitely) - but it sometimes has "interesting" properties, such as being fire- or even magma- resistant: fireproof cloaks/hoods may prove useful if you're playing with fire (or fire creatures), and you can build minecart rollers in magma without wasting magma-safe metals on chains anymore, though there are more exotic uses.
** [[Never Smile At a Crocodile|Crocodiles]] (especially Cave crocodiles) may be dangerous, but are butcherable for valuable materials, make good guard beasts (or just [[Shark Pool|living deathtraps]]) and produce edible eggs. ''[[Explosive Breeder|Lots and lots of]]'' eggs.
** There have also been incidents in which players rigged up ways to ''farm'' other creatures for '''''harvesting'''''. This ranged from a case where an '''ocean''' was manipulated for the purposes of getting at the walruses that lived within, to a more gruesome case where mermaids were beached and killed for their bones, which, at the time, made for high-quality crafts for selling (though [[Obvious Rule Patch|Toady has since devalued them]], evidently disgusted by the prospect).
== Western Animation ==
* A recurring event on ''[[Scooby
** The town in ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Witch's Ghost'' does the same. Then we learn there really is a ghost.
* A variant appears in the ''[[
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