Tender Is the Flesh

That ending was earth-shattering, but feels so right for the world.

This was a tough book to read at the start. I mean it's such a gross concept for a story — animal meat consumption is banned because of a suspected viral infection in non-human animals. And yet, consistently what I felt was that the book gave me an opportunity to look at modern industrial cattle & pig "farming" processes and think about how disgusting and inhumane they are. Yes, meat is more expensive if the cow is allowed to have a life. Is that such a bad thing? Do you need to eat meat at every meal? Of course not.

The writing was a bit hard to follow at times, and the translation is imperfect — for instance, manually translating the Spanish name for Soylent Green instead of, y'know, calling the movie "Soylent Green".

Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading Tender is the Flesh far more than I thought I would. So gross!