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Message no. 1
From: Luke Kendall <luke@********.CANON.OZ.AU>
Subject: Food in SR (Was - Re: Gene Spicing)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 14:14:00 +1100
J Roberson ...

>To me that sort of counters the "soy-x" bit. . .there's real
>food out there, but it's probably more expensive. Just not as much as
>some may have thought.

That reminds me of a problem we had in our game. The overall
impression we got was that _real_ food was expensive. Sure, healthy,
nutritious soy-foods are cheap and plentiful - but yuck.

E.g. we were all really impressed when Arleesh fed us real meat,
fresh vegetables, orange juice freshly squeezed... during a
meeting with her at her house during one scenario.

Yet in one of the sourcebooks (the Seattle sourcebook, I think),
it says that out in the farming areas at least, natural produce
is cheap and plentiful.

We decided to ignore this. What do others do?

luke
Message no. 2
From: The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Food in SR (Was - Re: Gene Spicing)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 16:40:16 -0600
>That reminds me of a problem we had in our game. The overall
>impression we got was that _real_ food was expensive. Sure, healthy,
>nutritious soy-foods are cheap and plentiful - but yuck.

As for taste, if you grow up with it, you'll adapt and probably won't mind.
Witness the countless happy European youths who drank milk that was far les
procesed than the stuff I bought in American stores while overseas. . .I
couldn't stand the stuff because it tasted curdle to me. But it was healthy
and they liked it.

>Yet in one of the sourcebooks (the Seattle sourcebook, I think),
>it says that out in the farming areas at least, natural produce
>is cheap and plentiful.

Well, that makes sense: a product will usually be cheaper in the region it's
produced than elsewhere. It may not be CHEAP, but it should be CHEAPER.

>We decided to ignore this. What do others do?

Ignore the low cost in production areas? Why? That doesn't conflict neccessarily
with what I wrote before. If you can clone food (at least animals) cheaply
enough, then it should be cheaper than growing soy and processing it into
substitute food.


J Roberson

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