Four seconds from midnight

The year is 2035, the keto flu has officially been added to the Harvard medical dictionary. The doomsday clock is now four seconds from midnight. Paris has become infested with rats. The only people who still live there are failed art curators whose jobs were wiped out in the most recent recession. As rat has become the society's primary source of protein, the curator's new economy centers around rat meat. The curators have devised unique ways of sustainably accumulating rat meat. They have found a way to harvest the meat from a living rat by cutting off specific muscle groups and not others. The particular biological construct of the Parisian rat allows it to regenerate its lost muscle tissue without the loss of its life. There are specialists in the Parisian community known as "Doctors" whose role it is to surgically remove as much rat meat as possible while still leaving it alive. The curators have thus turned 'rat hunting' into 'rat harvesting' and in doing so have made their most valuable contribution to human culture.