Tender is the Flesh

I am not sure how this book made me feel. I am also not sure how I feel about meat anymore.

This book really can only be summed up by saying that it is a weird way to look at the world and an even weirder way to look at us humans. It also is a book that you definitely should avoid reading anywhere close to when you are going to be eating that day.

It is extremely well written, that is for sure. Almost too well written where it really does feel like this life could very much be the world we live in within a few years’ time. Somehow with the way the world is going, this crazy idea does not seem to be all that crazy, especially with the pandemic and the resurrection of certain diseases that were thought to be gone from the world.

I honestly, would love to dive into the author’s head to understand a) how he came up with the idea, and b) what made him want the story to go in the direction that it did cause damn. Also, would be curious to find out if the author is vegan or vegetarian based on the context of the book, cause how can you eat meat while writing this story?

Anyways, this story is definitely one that will stick with you, pun so not intended, as it looks at the world in the future, with how we go about getting food completely changed. Humans no longer eat or have animals on the planet, as most of them were infected by some disease, so humans changed the industry, now treating “lesser” humans as food.

Yes, you read that correctly, the world now revolves around using humans as their meat substitute. From breeding, handling, farming, killing and packaging, it is all done the same way that we do with livestock currently. Though, their treatment is definitely worse.

The idea too that people are able to grow their own humans for consumption is also really weird and the fact that like they have to have rules in place about people having sexual relationships with these people and like what happens if they get one pregnant is just so strange to me and I don't understand it but like I do because realistically that's what society would turn to.

This entire book I'm glad is short because it messes with your mind so profoundly with these concepts that you don't really understand it at first and then when you do it kind of hits you all at once where you're just like this is absolutely disgusting at the same time a great understanding as to what is potentially to come in the world and how we should use our resources carefully.

I mean the one thing that it did showcase for me personally is that if this were ever to happen, I am definitely going to become a vegetarian because like not a chance am I going to end up like the people in this book. Honestly this is the cannibal Holocaust written out in a book in a society where it makes it normal and it's a good read, but it is one of the most disturbing books I've read and not how you think it would be in a sense. I don't know if I've ever read, well no I know I've never read anything like this before, and I'm not 100% convinced that I would read something like this again. Not because of what the context is but just about how it was showcased just I don't know it's one of those that sits with you very profoundly but one that you never have to read about or see again and you're fine in life but you're never going to forget what it's about that's what this is to me.