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toerrishumansodontbeone · 10 months

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man, its such a drag trying to find objective reviews of books with disturbing content. 9 times out of 10 it will center around the shocking subject and criticize it mainly on how justified was its usage.

Read Tender Is The Flesh yesterday and I wanted to see what more people thought, but ugh its so tiring having to filter through all the shocked normies.

I wanna hear peoples thoughts on the issues of sustainability that have been entirely left out of what is an obvious satire of late stage capitalism and the meat&dairy industry!

I wanna be validated on my nitpicky pro science sceptics pet peeves about how little enthusiasm the author has for the scientific method, how shallow the worldbuilding feels when youre faced with the premise of " all animals carry a virus deadly to humans, so they can no longer eat meat". I have a million questions having some basic interest in biology that I do. I have a million questions from being a vegetarian by simple preference. I wanna hear from other people who have trouble suspending disbelief cus INSECT PROTEIN IS RIGHT THERE AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN PEOPLE KILLED THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY COULD NO LONGER EAT MEAT THATS INSANE

#I could ramble for hours how many things feel superficial #author obviously researched the processes of a slaughterhouse #but omitted the actual horror of working there save for one anecdote and a passing remark that actually trivializes the psychological damag #having heard stories in real life and online about the experiences the culture in these workplaces... feels kinda insulting #feels a bit sloppy #AND YET I am intrigued by the protagonist and all his shining little hypocrisies #that familiar pretentious nihilism that sees through it all but does nothing #is only concerned with its personal pain and makes no effort to voice its true thoughts which also hides a certain kind of unspoken-#cowardice. he lives in fear and he cannot see it cannot even fathom it #AND AND AND how overpopulation and lack of resources is a blatant lie especially when the talk is about food #and on some large global scale thats just not true #tender is the flesh #DISCLAIMER: this is me rambling its in no way a well rounded publishable review of my full thoughts thank u #book blogging #vermin chat

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