![]() ![]() Of course, on the surface, Tender Is the Flesh reads like a pretty cut-and-clear indictment of our factory farming practices. Scientists were working on purebred “special meat,” ever-rare and to be sold at even higher mark-ups. ![]() “Special meat” was packaged and sold for high prices. Butchers and slaughterhouses continued their jobs as normal. They were persecuted and eventually slaughtered.” And after that? The government-sanctioned solution, of course, was to create a market of breeding and slaughtering humans for consumption. ![]() (Livestock and beloved pets alike must be eliminated.) What then? Our main character discloses: “In some countries, immigrants began to disappear in large numbers. In Augstina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh, we find a world that has been ravaged by a virus that renders all animals dangerous and inedible. But behind the taboo, behind the gore, what are we really talking about when we’re talking about cannibalism? ![]() This year has been so horrific, so full of twisted headlines, that maybe the only way to illicit any genuine shock out of a reader is to take them to such an extreme. From Maria Dahvana Headley’s new translation of Beowulfto Shalom Auslander’s Mother for Dinner, this has been the year of books that feature people eating people. By my count, 2020 has seen the publication of quite a few books featuring cannibalism. ![]()
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