One more thing just for fun, to add “flavor” to your sessions, consider this: Most spacers will be vegetarians not…

One more thing just for fun, to add “flavor” to your sessions, consider this: Most spacers will be vegetarians not…

One more thing just for fun, to add “flavor” to your sessions, consider this: Most spacers will be vegetarians not by nature or ethics, but by pocketbook. Real meat is expensive, both in cost to raise and in retail cost. 

“But sir! We’ll have vat grown meat!”

Yeah, about that. Growing meat in a dish is one thing, large scale commercial production is another. And unless they go the extra mile, what you get is a dry mushy compound that doesn’t taste of anything.  No fat content, that’s different set of cells, and because it’s grown in a vat, the meat doesn’t align into muscles, providing definition and texture. 

To get something that looks like a steak, they literally would have to sculpt the meat around fake bones, adding fat cells for marbling, and then exercise it with electrical shocks as it grows in a nutrient medium.

When you price it out, you’ll either pay a hundred credits for a 22 gram piece of sculpted vat meat, or that same hundred credits will get you kilos of vegetables and Phood. 

“Phood?” you ask?

Yes, Phood™ from the Phood Corporation. They produce all sorts of ersatz meat products from their ever popular Beeph™ to their line of Pharm Fresh Feggs™. Phood Corp products look and taste like the real thing. 

They are made from mycoprotein harvested from vast mats of fungus grown in sterile conditions, they can mimic the texture and flavor of what ever you desire. 

Feel like Chikhen™? Or some Mheet™ balls with your pasta? They got it. 

Dig in and enjoy!

(For a real world version, check out Quorn.)

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  4. How could I forget Phisch! With the ever popular Psalmon™!

    One thing to think about. Once you get enough land terraformed, you have enough to raise chickens without feed. Good scratch can support 400 chickens per acre. A good laying chicken will produce 300-400 eggs in its effective egg laying lifetime. Then you have chicken for dinner or stew. That’s 2.1kg of egg protein and 680g of chicken meat protein. That’s a bargain, especially if you free range your chickens and only use feed when there isn’t much to scratch.

    You’ll want to place rookeries in several locations in your “chicken ranch” and block access to dark holes and caves, as the chickens will use those as well. IRL my cousin raises chickens for eggs and for a while, couldn’t find half of them, as the chickens were laying them in his rock retaining wall. 🙂

    Fresh, unwashed eggs will last at room temperature for 4-5 weeks, and if refrigerated, up to 7 months. So every agricultural world your ship visits, you can buy loads of fresh eggs. It’s a major competitor to Phood’s Pharm Fresh Feggs, the only advantage Feggs have is that they are cholesterol free.

  7. We are in a current cycle that thinks the other way, but the big secret to space-exploration is to SQUEEZE and EXPLOIT most of the people of the Earth so a chosen few can get into space, get the education that makes scientific discovery possible, and then make miracle metal to make massive space-stations with all the farmland whose ecosystem they can rigorously control (no bugs, never a bug, probably flying nanomachine pollinators instead), and then they’ll have genuine Angus AAA steaks in space.  Soil from asteroids:  unlimited.  Sunlight and power:  unlimited.  Let the poor groundbounders have the Phood!  Working with only what you’ve got is soooo Sierra Leone.  With ingenious ways to tap solar energy:  unlimited power to mash rocks, generate oxygen, produce soil and grow anything you want.  And then we’ll have wonderful, real, 100% cruelty MEAT!

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