Multipurpose Monocultured Crop: Difference between revisions

 

== Comics ==

 

== Literature ==

The crop attracts a whole ecosystem of pleasing animals }}

* In the [[Vorkosigan Saga]], Esteban Borges's artificially designed and created "Butter Bugs" are meant to be this. They are large bugs that live in colonies with a Queen and reproduce quickly, yet their breeding is human-controlled so they can't overrun the environment. In their stomachs they secrete 'Bug Butter', which is tasteless, sort of the consistency of tofu, and can supply all your dietary needs: you can practically live of it alone. Their excrement is also excellent fertilizer, and they can be kept at low cost since they can eat just about anything that's organic, including bark, branches and grass. Their marketing didn't exactly take off at first, as people were turned off by their ugly appearance and thought it was pretty disgusting to eat something that was regurgitated by one, until Ekaterin redesigned them to be "Beautiful Butter Bugs". Now it seems they're going to be pretty profitable.

{{quote| It's a shirt, it's a sock, it's a glove, it's a hat<br />

And it has other uses, far beyond that }}

== Tabletop games ==

* The 1st Edition ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeon Master's Guide]]'' recommended that DMs incorporate some made-up variety of vegetation or prey into their campaign worlds, that can generate lots of easy food and thus make the abundance of big predatory monsters a bit less implausible.

* In the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game, parts of the viridia plant can be used for everything from flour to fabric to lumber to oil to ''naturally-grown canoes''. Justified by [[A Wizard Did It]].