Carnivores on the verge of a nervous breakdown! At a Christmas party, the unnamed protagonist and first-person-narrator innocently orders roast goose and suddenly finds himself confronted with uncomprehending looks and horrified comments from his colleagues. They are all hard-core vegetarians. An embarrassing situation and there’s only one way out: the man announces that “of course” he’s giving up meat completely in the New Year.
But giving up turns out to be harder than he imagines: Lunch, once the highlight of a day at work, is like love without sex. The man becomes listless and unmotivated. He’s plagued by evil visions and his erotic aura hits rock bottom once he starts looking like all the other vegetarians: grey-faced, undernourished and badly dressed. When his virility disappears altogether, his wife leaves him. All he can think about is his desire for meat.
And then he finally sees a light at the end of the tunnel in the internet: a blogger named bruehwuerfel69 (stockcube69) soothes the young man’s guilty conscience and recruits him as a member of the secret association of carnivores which is dedicated to saving humanity from rampant vegetarianism. As a Trojan horse, our hero now has the task of mobilising vegetarians and encouraging as many as possible to return to the old world of meat eaters.
In his magnificent farce, Jakob Hein confronts the followers of both sides with their prejudices. Funny, fast-paced and provoking!
