The owner of a breeding center explains the entire process of raising the "head". Marcos' job involves being a middle man, the one who purchases the "head" and then sells the products. He describes his internal conflict with his job and the state of the world. Marcos works at one of these slaughterhouses in order to support his ailing father, who suffers from dementia. Scavengers, who cannot afford the special meat, consume any dead body available. Soon cannibalism was institutionalized, industrialized and normalized, with humans bred for consumption known as "special meat". The world has fallen into chaos after the "Transition", the term describing an event where a virus that infected animals was found to be deadly to humans, resulting in the mass slaughter and burning of animals, with the world's population forced either to go vegan, or eat each other. The novel opens by describing the process of slaughtering humans, who are then referred to as "head". Marcos, a human meat supplier, is conflicted by this new society, and tortured by his own personal losses. Because of the lack of animal flesh, cannibalism becomes legal. Tender is the Flesh portrays a society in which a virus has contaminated all animal meat. The novel was originally published in Spanish in 2017 and translated by Sarah Moses into English in 2020. Tender is the Flesh is a dystopian novel by Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica.
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