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* An episode of the new ''[[Outer Limits]]'' had humans kept as slave-mechanics by sentient spaceships, apparently for many generations. The protagonist's ship docks with another so that he can mate with the second ship's female slave-mechanic, to provide yet another generation of repairmen.
** Another episode had a group of humans decide to go live in a colony out in the woods, starting families away from civilization. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that the "colony" is actually inside a disguised alien spaceship, and the humans are being bred for slavery.
* The original ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' mini-series and subsequent series had reptilian aliens disguised as human-like beings bringing peace and love, only to secretly harvest the human race as a) cannon-fodder foot-troops for their wars and b) food.
* This was the purpose of the Master's factory project in the alternate Sunnydale of "The Wish" on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': It is ultimately revealed that this is the plan that the [[Eldritch Abomination|Leviathans]] were working on all through Season 7 -- they create a food additive drug that, upon ingestion, makes humans slothful and complacent, causing them to fatten up and dull up, so that they can be marched into the slaughterhouses the Leviathans are building under the guise of agricultural factories. Oh, and the drug is lethal to any other monsters that feed on humans, since the Leviathans don't want any competition for their food.
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* One of the nastiest sidequests in ''<nowiki>~Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura~</nowiki>'' unveils an [[Ancient Conspiracy]] of Gnomes who deliberately bred half-ogres so they could 'employ' them as bodyguards. Nowadays, they've basically got half-ogre 'farms', but they had to get their 'starting stock' from SOMEWHERE, and you find that place... as well as some squickily detailed records. Worse yet, the gnomes [[Karma Houdini|get away with it]], making all the evidence you uncover 'disappear'...
** The [[Mind Screw]] conclusion leaves open the possibility that the conspiracy really ''was'' delusional paranoia, and that killing the gnome and his 'agent' marks your own descent into the same insanity. Even so, the [[Gray and Gray Morality]] dampens the horror of it—even if it is true, half-ogre bodyguards tend to be better treated, better educated, and achieve social status that no other half-ogres have access to. And it's suggested that stopping the violent and homicidal persecution of gnomes excused the callous abduction and rape of women early in the foundation of the program.
* In the video game ''[[Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds]]'' (based on the music based on [[The War of the Worlds (novel)||the book]]) this is required for various applications in the war machines the aliens use. When playing as the aliens you actually have to BUILD human farms to draw the proper amount of blood. It isn't implied that they're killed, and in fact since you * are* basically the supreme overlord of the attacking aliens, you could basically say "They're not being killed to draw it out. They're just being....harvested slowly. Killing them slows it down too much." easily. Which was how this troper managed to ignore the rather squicky implications of the fact that my alien force is invading Britain filled with man woman and child, kidnapping, and using them for live stock.
* The Combine Empire from ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]'' transforms a large amount of its human dissidents preferably into "Stalkers", pitty creatures which got their limbs and the ability to speak removed. Basically, these things are the willingless work slaves of the combine, held and processed in the citadel for the rest of their poor excuse for a life.
* The batarians in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' have some of these, though they're never actually seen. Liberating one and seeing what happened there was enough to turn a model soldier into a stumbling drunk.
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