Review: It's Riley and ME. Please, check your grammar!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2012
Make an interesting TV series.I can't believe this author has no grammar checker for a short story! Use it!To figure out if you need to say "Riley and I" or "Riley and Me" just delete the "Riley and" part of the sentence. Would you say "She smiled at I" or "She smiled at me?" It's a no-brainer, especially since every word-processing program on the planet has a grammar-checker. You have to manually modify the program to say "I want to sound stupid." The uneducated phrasing took away from the story.Aside from that, my first reaction was disbelief. Not that I don't think humans would eat other humans for food -- I do. But humans are incredibly expensive to raise compared to rats, dogs, pigs, etc. Gestation is too long, and time to market is too long (even for veal). The story does say that food animals got sick from eating tainted grain, but there are plenty of wild critters that would have been raised instead. The auction makes sense, but it would be like the Hunger Games or The Lottery. And why bother with filling the teeth of your lunch meat?There's the question of language. Supposedly, the humans are told not to use language, so subsequent-generation humans would not speak. But we know better from parrots, cats, dogs and horses -- animals try to emulate sounds in order to communicate. A more realistic option would be to remove their toungues at a young age, and pickle them for sale.Intriguing, but too much is out of sync to make sense. I didn't enjoy the grammatically incorrect writing at all, though I liked the fact that the girl in the story has little problem with accepting that she's meat.A suggestion: Maybe read first-hand accounts of concentration/death camp survivors. See what their mental attitude was, especially if they were children or observed them. Kids might not be able to compare a life they don't know to the life they do.I wonder if PETA would object to humans being raised for food, or if they exist in this future. I bet they would support it; perhaps they would have been in charge of the original humans-for-food plan (in conjunction with Tyson and ADM, perhaps).