Shortly afterwards, a spaceship belonging to the World Destroyer reaches Earth as a vanguard, and a several-meter-tall and unusually reptilian-looking alien emerges from it, which humans call "Biter".
At a reception with other heads of state, Biter explains that all the raw materials of the planets in the Solar System will be plundered by the World Destroyer when it arrives, and then eats the Greek president.
Biter justifies this as a taste test, because people do not have to face extinction, but can be kept for their delicious meat on board of the World Destroyer and can live a luxurious life until they are slaughtered at the age of sixty.
[1] Jaymee Goh wrote on Strange Horizons, that the "expository paragraphs [....] are particularly tedious in first contact stories such as 'Mountain,' 'Devourer,' and 'The Micro Era,' where there is barely any human drama and the protagonists are flat."
In particular for "Devourer", she remarks that the "ridiculousness can paper over the ethical questions raised" since "the text is asking the reader to identify and recognize the humanity of an alien", who is "a genocidal colonizer" and "a giant thirty-foot-tall dinosaur".