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Why are reviewers not acknowledging the fact that entire premise is utterly ridiculous? A virus that can get past the immune system of every animal except human? The idea that ANYBODY would want to eat people just because they can’t get their morning bacon or cheeky Nandos, let alone enough people to make cannibalism government policy?
David It's a satire on the life we already live. I'm not sure how you missed that.

The "people we eat" are the women working in unsafe Bangladeshi sweatshops…moreIt's a satire on the life we already live. I'm not sure how you missed that.

The "people we eat" are the women working in unsafe Bangladeshi sweatshops so we can have five dollar t-shirts, the 12 year olds harvesting rare earth minerals in some hellhole of a mine in Africa or Central Asia so we can have cheap cell phones, and the migrant labor who has to cross a barren desert in the care of a human trafficking cartel so we can eat cheap vegetables.

Her critique is of modern life as consumption, of capitalism writ large. (less)
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Tender Is the Flesh
by Agustina Bazterrica
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