As the beast consumes all living things in its path the most defenseless are the most horrible treated, we have the example of factory farming, the most disgusting exploitation of something alive, billions of animals are mere objects discarded every single year, their body parts are treated like components, they will feed the monster in its exponential growth ad infinitum.
Other animals are displayed in cages as they cannot be easily domesticated others used as pets, all this to further domesticate zeks but above all to generate more work with all the industry and skilled work it generates this of course creates a sort of feedback loop again to feed and expand the beast.
This is total madness now animals are forced fed their brothers and sisters some of them with the wrong fuel, food their body’s didn’t evolve to take at least not in such big quantities.
Next with the advent of robotics and AI(artificial intelligence), the beast will have no purpose for such a big human population except maybe for a selected few, the rest will be most likely the next factory farmed animals at least until the machines get to outperform humans fisically in every single aspect.
Yes that is right the matrix movies are not at all that far fetch.
It is not so much that machines will take over is more like civilization will use machines to replace humans and/or use us exactly like cows chickens and pigs are used today, besides that the beast already uses us as cogs and levers to be able to move around.