Attack on Titan: Shingeki no Kyojin

[Buffalobiian]

I don't really see any evidence of that yet.

I mean, the humans put themselves behind the wall. And I wouldn't even see any livestock comparison if characters didn't keep saying it. Cows don't build their own pens to hide from humans.

And I'm not really sure when the last time anyone had a cattle ranch where they just let the cows do whatever for a century...

I take it to mean the humans live in fear of being eaten.

I agree that they're not livestock in the sense that they're being farmed.

[DarthEnderX]

I take it to mean the humans live in fear of being eaten.

Then they're kind of just being melodramatic then. There's a different between being livestock and just being a creature that happens to not be at the top of the food chain.

[MFauli]

Then they're kind of just being melodramatic then. There's a different between being livestock and just being a creature that happens to not be at the top of the food chain.

Not sure if you can apply that to the world of Shingeki no Kyojin, buuut: A creature that´s used to be at the top of the food chain might not be used to living in fear. Thus experiencing a heightened sense of what being like livestock might feel. At least that´s what people of our real world would likely feel like.