@Thatmotherfluffer @Libra @Chikahiro
The way I see the foal-in-a-can production is that it is the epitome of the complete industrialization of the fluffy pony as a commercial pet. I have seen the story as a progression from an earlier story that Carpdime did called The Last Baby. That concept is not exactly new as writers like Mayclore and artists like Meh, Fillialcacophony, Ginger_fig and KMEB al depicted the difficult nature of fluffy mills, and how they’d mirror real life puppy mills. But the foal in a can takes it a step further, by having mares completely deprived of everything in order to churn out foals in as industrial a method as possible, and “canning the foals”, making no better than a toy.
So if we consider it from a harsh utilitarian and productivity-oriented focus that sees fluffies as only a “product”, a defective product would be discarded. Yes, we should feel sorry for the discarded foal, but the reality is that in an overly-industrialized scenario/narrative, the product that does not “fit in” is discarded.
And yet, I feel that Avocado is special as a character because he develops despite this origin. He becomes more than “just” a product.