A dystopian novel about a meat industry that created a "cattle human" population to stay afloat

[BooksArePortals]

Originally published in Argentina, translated to English later.


I kid you not I got ONE result on Google,

 

[hitmouse]

Can you give us some more detail?
See the "request" sticky at the top.

 

[Toby Frost]

This rings vague bells. Has it got a one-word title, like "Meat" or "Taste"?

 

[Orcadian]

Could this be Meat, by Joseph D'Lacey?

 

[hitmouse]

Presumably it was published in Spanish originally?

 

[Pete_100]

Are you sure it wasn't written in English?

Sounds a lot like End Product by Barry Norman.

Some information here.

Barry Norman's Forgotten Novel: A Bizarre Dystopian Apartheid Satire - Ransom Note

The nation has been mourning the death of film critic Barry Norman. The country’s most recognisable authority on cinema, Norman had the broad taste of a national treasure, as happy to rhapsodise over Star Wars as he was championing the conspiracy theories and class warfare of Mike Leigh’s Naked...

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Set an unspecified amount of years in Earth’s future, End Product tells of a post-war planet where the globe’s black races have been apparently wiped out following years of racial conflict (known in Norman’s book as the Negro Wars). I say apparently, because instead of wiping out black people, the victorious Aryan races have come up with a grotesque plan. Over the course of a hundred or so years, they have lobotomised black people, rebranded them as ‘ediblacks’, claimed they are a different species to humanity, and proceeded to breed and factory farm them as a supply of meat and organs. In essence they have managed a state of total slavery whilst simultaneously denying that any such slavery exists; they are ‘farming animals’, not enslaving humans.

 

[Yammerhant]

Is it "Tender Is the Flesh" by Agustina Bazterrica?

Review

 

[merritt]

Through Darkest America?