Vegan Rants about Tender is the Flesh // Horror Book Review 

This sounds like gross for the sake of being gross. I feel like something from the farmed perspective would be more interesting,particularly maybe people who have already evaded the system and try to help others

Absolutely agree, thank you for making this video !!!

Ugh I hate there being so many unknowns left…like yes he got rid of the jasmine “problem”.. but now they have this random baby. Where will they tell people they got it? If they try to pretend Cecelia had the baby, their family would know that wasn’t true..Is Cecelia’s mom loyal enough to keep the secret of her son-in-law having sex with a head? I guess given his job he could conjure up some fake paperwork saying that Jasmine was artificially inseminated..but I just wish there would have been a few paragraphs of Marcos and Cecelia discussing what they planned to do going forward. Or what would have been really crazy is if Marcos revealed that he already had all of the paperwork ready/the cover up planned out.. proving that he really had just been using Jasmine the entire time when most readers thought he had fallen in love.

I disagree with these points. I think the books says a lot. It feels more Orwellian (especially 1984) and also a lot like the jungle. Those books could have a similar read of "what even happens" and "whats the point." I think it uses the cold and distant simple perceptive instead of other characters/ victims very much on purpose to make it personal as most readers are invested in a protagonist (then horrifying when you are emotionally invested in someone who does something awful). There is also an adage of "the more specific, the more universal" and I think it applies here. I found it really refreshing to have a limited perspective. It reminds me of real life, and I think that was the point because in many ways it is real life. In real life there are issues but not everyone knows how to solve it especially while being in-trenched in a system, we only ever see parts. It feels like an allegory or fable in some ways because obviously people would go vegan before going to cannibalism. I read this book in a day as it was impossible to put down. The way the reader is introduced to the world and the themes is very organic and very well written. There is so much themes and commentary to unpack in a short 200 pages, but it doesn't feel overstuffed. It reflects our world and its issues today in scary ways (especially considering it was pre-covid). I think it is a book that makes you think about ourselves and our morals and choices. Its not about direct answers. I find that more engaging and critical thinking to be more introspective. I will say I feel like the second half of the book is weaker then the first half. The horrible things really escalate 2/3rds of the way in and then ease up to have an ending that will surprise some people (all the signs where there). I found myself checking and re-checking if this was written by a woman. This ties into major criticism I’ve been seeing about the book being weak on delivery, awful to women, or torture porn but I think the how evil and awful is intentional. It is cold and distant and brutal not glorifying and gratuitous. Though I will admit I wish it was toned down. You are supposed to be uncomfortable, there are cartoonishly evil people (those characters are desensitized, especially the rich), and you aren’t going to get a resolution or handed the moral high ground in regards to all the themes and commentary. I think we are used to heavy handedness and being spoon feed what to do and think when issues are brought up. This is book that presents horror for the purposes to break you out of the normalization and desensitization as well as highlight how we can be sucked into it so easily by the end as well.

Thanks for making this video; I completely agree and had the same experience reading the book as a vegan. Yes it was gross but why? The author could have made such a good point, all the setup was there, but nope. Those people really did THE MOST not to eat a bean 😅