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In a world where a lethal virus has rendered animal meat toxic, governments have legalized the breeding, slaughter, and consumption of humans. Marcos Tejo, a mourning plant manager at a processing facility, oversees the industrial transformation of "special meat" into food. His routine of monitoring decapitations and skinning shifts when he receives a gift: a high-quality female specimen intended for his own consumption. Despite strict laws against treating livestock as human beings, Marcos begins to view her with a forbidden, dangerous empathy that threatens his survival.

This book targets readers of speculative horror and social satire who seek a clinical examination of dehumanization and institutionalized cruelty. It appeals to those interested in the ethics of the meat industry and the psychological mechanisms of linguistic shifts, such as how renaming humans as product enables mass violence. Readers exit with a bleak understanding of how easily moral boundaries collapse under systemic pressure. The narrative provides a cold look at the human capacity for indifference when faced with the demands of an engineered society.