‘The Pleasure of Eating’ By Makiko Hirata

In the future, where this story takes place, nano robots in our bloodstreams keeps track of all our nutritional and medical needs in a capsule, where we sleep. The daily sustenance is administered by injection. Physical activities, including sex, has replaced food as cultural and social activity, marking our days. Instead, ingestion has come to been seen as hedonistic, sinful and selfish.

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