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{{quote|'''Neon Samurai''': You know, in all my 29 years, I've never had a real steak.
'''Feral''': Meat is overrated. Fruit, on the other hand... You haven't lived until you've tasted real, fresh fruit.
'''Digger''': Drek, I'd be happy to know I was eating every night.
|'''''[[Shadowrun]]''''': Shadowtech Sourcebook }}
In the future, things are going to change drastically—including our diets. Whether it be from [[Gaia's Lament|the destruction of arable land]], food processing technology becoming cheaper, or just plain ethnocentrism, eventually, real food will become a luxury item, unavailable to all but perhaps an elite few. So, what does the rest eat? Processed foodstuffs, based usually on soy or yeast, loaded up with artificial flavors and engineered to be nutritionally complete<ref>In all fairness, it is one of the few legumes that has all 20 amino acids for a complete human protein.</ref>—but not the least bit tasty or satisfying.
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== Real Life ==
* May become [[Truth in Television]] [[wikipedia:In vitro meat|in a few years]], to help reduce the environmental impact of meat and satisfy the [[Animal Wrongs
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