6/22/2023 0 Comments Tender is the flesh author![]() In the near future, an alleged pandemic has stricken livestock and rendered their meat inedible. It is the most disturbing work of fiction I have ever read. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica is a masterpiece that exposes the grotesque horror of necro-capitalism and the banalities of social convention that sustain it. Their deaths are just the cost of doing business. The deaths of slaughterhouse workers, like those of the animals they carve up and process for grocery chains everywhere, is facilitated by a larger, systemic indifference to their plight. ![]() These multi-billion dollar companies are supported by the politicians whose campaigns they fund and the civil society groups they finance. A predominately immigrant workforce, their status makes them vulnerable to the whims of highly exploitative employers who are often able to deploy one of our country’s most racist police forces-ICE-to keep the workers in line. ![]() In 2020, one of the groups who were most vulnerable to disease and death were slaughterhouse workers. ![]() It’s a way of looking at how capitalism organizes segments of the population in ways that result in some groups of workers being exposed to extreme dangers and even death as a routine part of the production process. “Necro-capitalism” was a term I first learned in 2020, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. ![]()
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