Review by bananarama - Tender Is the Flesh

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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

DID NOT FINISH: 73%

While the content may be disturbing for some, this is not my first rodeo with these topics and my reasons for not finishing the book stem more from the fact that whatever point the author is trying to make is not terribly groundbreaking. Most of the messages that I felt were trying to be conveyed have been topics of conversation for years (yes human can be unbearably cruel, especially to other humans. Yes, the meat industry is horrific and we often bend over backwards to make arbitrary justifications so the public can remain comfortably blind to the gruesome nature of the industry. Yes even those we believe to be good and have “correct viewpoints” are capable of acting in opposition to those views for their own comfort/desires.) I don’t feel this book added any new dimensions to these conversations and instead gave more of a 101 introduction to these concepts, but the end result made me feel like the content had no deeper purpose than to shock and horrify readers.

TLDR if you’re already passingly familiar with humanity’s potential for cruelty, justification of said cruelty, and ability to be stunningly hypocritical in order to remain comfortable then there’s no real reason to read this book

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