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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.
Future Food Is Artificial is a staple of [[Cyberpunk]] and other [[Dystopia]]s because [[Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap]], and is often first clue that the [[Utopia]] we see isn't quite what it seems. However, it is also common in the [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|Harder]] varieties of science fiction, particularly [[Space Opera]]s; [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514025343/http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/gardening-in-space gardens on spaceships] are [[Truth in Television]], but [[Let's Meet the Meat|battery farms]] on board anything less than a [[Generation Ship]] strains just about everyone's [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]].
The [[Darker and Edgier]] version of [[Food Pills]] (it probably first appeared in fiction as a subversion thereof), and the black sheep cousin to [[Veganopia]]. Assuming it's not recycled, this sort of future food usually comes from a [[Multipurpose Monocultured Crop]].
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