Future Food Is Artificial: Difference between revisions

 

 

'''Digger''': Drek, I'd be happy to know I was eating every night.|'''''[[Shadowrun]]''''': Shadowtech Sourcebook }}

 

* Implied in ''[[Trancers]]''. Jack Deth has been sent to the past from the future and is given beef Chinese food, prompting him to say "Beef? Like from a ''cow''?"

* A subject of dissent among the Tomanian people in ''[[The Great Dictator]]''.

'''Hynkel:''' "What more do they want? It's the finest lumber our mills can supply!" }}

 

* Surprisingly, this makes an appearance in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''Starfleet Academy: Collision Course''. In these pre-replicator days, there are many references to "resequenced protein" as something people eat when they've no choice. In particular, breakfast at the Adademy consists of resequenced protein in thin pink slices and thick white slabs, vaguely resembling bacon and eggs. According to Spock, they were originally created as emergency shuttle rations.

* Used in ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' novel "A Day for Damnation" to feed a herd (victims of a plague that affects intelligence) in San Francisco.

As we watched, the herd members gathered around the bale and began to pull chunks away from it like pieces of bread. }}

* In a pair of books by Jody Lynn Nye, ''Taylor's Ark'' and ''Medicine Show'', the artificial food is called "nutri". The main character laments more than once that she craves the stuff, unflavored, when pregnant.

* Subverted in [[Peter F. Hamilton]]'s ''Fallen Dragon'' - most food is created artificially, but there is plenty of room for farmland. It's just that synthetic foodstuffs are indistinguishable from the real thing and natural food [[Squick|Squicks]] the hell out of most people. The protagonist innocently eats a non-vat steak and vomits when he is told it came from a cow.

* Larry Niven's short story ''Vandervecken'' makes reference to a substance called "Dole Yeast"

'''Alice:''' --And barely worth it. If you're down and out it'll keep you fed, and it practically grows itself. }}

* In ''[[Good Omens]]'', [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Famine]] (in the guise of Dr. Raven Sable) develops CHOW^TM, completely indigestible food which allows you to slim yourself down the terminal way. Then later on:

* ''[[Space Captain Smith]]'' plays this for laughs with Synthetic Ham (Sham), Sham Lite (Shite), Synthetic Curry (Slurry) Sham sausages (Homage) and synthetic bacon (Facon)

* Most animals in ''[[Neuromancer]]'' have been killed by a pandemic, and "meats" are grown in vats. When protagonist Case refuses to partake a steak in a posh restaurant on the Moon, his partner Molly replies "gimme that. You know what this costs? They've gotta raise a whole animal for years and then they kill it. This isn't vat stuff."

* In ''[[Space Quest]] 6'', the food dispenser in the crew lounge is named "Mr. Soylent," and even comes with a cheeky advertising jingle, ending with "Soylent Clear: Clearly less people, clearly better taste."

* Guess where does the major source of Nutrients come from in ''[[Alpha Centauri]]''? Kelp and people once you got recycling tanks.

** Fortunately the first uses of genetic engineering techs are developing crops that can grow on the planet.

* BoFu in X3 is a very popular food for the Boron, cheap and easy to make. It is very delicous for them. However no other race likes it. Its sorta like the Pemmican of the Borons since a single morsel can last them a wuorza.