Other influences range from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and the 1973 film Soylent Green, which was loosely based on Harry Harrison's 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room!.

In this book, the protagonist begins to question the government's strict rules and the importance of free will. In many ways it resembles the 1953 dystopia novel by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. Tender is the Flesh is inspired by several novels. Complicating matters is the death of his elderly father and a strained relationship with his nagging sister.

In order to keep the relationship and pregnancy a secret, Marcos hides Jasmine from his home and starts a process of resigning from his work. If the law finds out he had sexual intercourse with a 'head,' he will be slaughtered. Naming her Jasmine, Marcos develops an illegal relationship with her that results in a pregnancy. Most of the author's narrative is devoted to Marcos contemplating the whole meat industry and its negative impact on mankind.Īfter Marcos is gifted a woman, high human grade, he begins to look after her. This loss evokes empathy for the people who are slaughtered. After experiencing the loss of a child, Marcos goes into a deep depression and his wife moves out. He acts as an account executive for 'meat runs' where he reviews processes and procurement. Marcos is a second generation employee of the meat processing industry. Human meat (known as special meat) is then bought by processing plants (slaughterhouses) where the entire organism is used for food or manufacturing. Their vocal cords are removed and based on ethnicity, race, age and gender, humans are packaged into categories and sold. These humans (called heads) are raised to consume, so they have no intelligence beyond the walls of the cage. Body farms have been created that raise humans in the same way that cattle are raised today. Due to lack of animals, cannibalism has become legal.

Due to the health risks, most of the world's animal populations have been destroyed.

In the future, animals have been contaminated by a deadly virus. After being encouraged by a friend, I borrowed her copy to check it out. The 2020 Dystopian work has received international praise as a powerful, stunning look at capitalism and industrialized farming. Her second novel, Tender is the Flesh, earned literary prominence in her country. Augustine Bazterrica is an Argentinean writer of novels and short stories.

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