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On this Halloween edition of Resistance Reads, we read Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh, a novel set in a world where a virus has made animal meat deadly to humans and cannibalism has become a legal, industrialized business. We follow Marcos Tejo, a manager at a human meat processing plant, as he tours the systems that make this world run. The book is a blunt critique of capitalism, industrial farming, and the ease with which societies learn to see some people as products. We talk about the book’s dystopian structure, its parallels to slavery, and why it was such a difficult read. 

Next Episode: The Underground Railroad

Resistance Reads is a literary podcast co-hosted by Michael Kilman and Matt Wellstrom, exploring books about power, resistance, and the systems that shape our lives.