Overview - It opens with the director of Hatcheries and Conditioning giving some students a tour of their factory. It's learned humans no longer reproduce, but are instead made. The caste and job the fetus will have is predetermined. 3 of 5 of the castes (gammas, epsilons, and deltas) undergo the Bokanovksy Process, which shocks the embryo to form 96 identical clones. Some babies are also injected with certain immunities so they'll be better at their future jobs, and sometimes conditioned for certain types of weather as well. We got an idea of their society by reading the process of how humans are made now. Also in this world, the people praise Henry Ford as a god because he was the father of mass production
Vocabulary learned - bouillion - noun - a broth made by stewing meat, fish, or vegetables in water
beget - verb - make a child
decant - verb - gradually pour
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