'Under the skin' by Michel Faber is a novel with a bizarre story line. The main character is a creature from a different world. She drives around the highland of Scotland where she picks up big and beefy male human-beings who will provide her fellow beings with a lot of meat to eat. The story line goes on to describe the factory that the creatures use to process the human beings and to use them as their food.
As the story unfolds, the reader is left thinking about the way humans farm and consume animals. The role of human beings in this relationship is reversed. The book is a real eye-opener for those who do not think about their meat-eating habits and what the costs of it are for other beings in this world.
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