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Book tender is the flesh5/7/2023 As Marcos lives with his product, he gradually begins to awaken to the trauma of his past and the nightmare of his present. “One can get used to almost anything,” he muses, “except for the death of a child.” One day, the head of a breeding center sends Marcos a gift: an adult female FGP, a “First Generation Pure,” born and bred in captivity. Though Marcos understands the moral horror of his job supervising the workers who stun, kill, flay, and butcher other humans, he doesn’t feel much since the crib death of his infant son. Now, as is true across the country, Marcos’ slaughterhouse deals in “special meat”-human beings. But ever since the Transition, when animals became infected with a virus fatal to humans and had to be destroyed, society has been clamoring for a new source of meat, laboring under the belief, reinforced by media and government messaging, that plant proteins would result in malnutrition and ill effects. Once, that meant taking over his father’s meat plant when the older man began to suffer from dementia and require nursing home care. A processing plant manager struggles with the grim realities of a society where cannibalism is the new normal.
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