Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

 

Hello everyone.  I hope you are well.  This book isn't my norm.  My sister and brother-in-law read it out loud while they drove here for a quick visit.  I read it while they were here.  I am not sure if that is a good thing or not.

I recently read Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.  This book follows Marco, who runs a slaughter house.  As bad as that may be, it is worse.  The world has had a virus that infected all animals.  Fearing this virus would pass to humans they killed all the animals, in unnecessarily grotesque ways.  Being left with not enough protein to nourish the world's population, humans are bread to be slaughtered for food.  Oh yes, you read that correctly.  Any cook out there, may have an odd experience reading about cuts of meat that you recognize only this book is referencing that cut in human meat.  This novel published in 2020 held my interest but after reading every last word I have never been closer to being a vegetarian.  Think of this as the movie Soylent Green on steroids.  Interesting, will make you think about how we treat and eat animals, but read on an empty stomach.