| From: | Tim Kerby <drekhead@***.NET> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | (Fwd) Re: Help with roll players |
| Date: | Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:02:49 -0500 |
From: Self <Drekhead>
To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
Subject: Re: Help with roll players
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:53:16 -0500
On 21 Jan 99, at 11:51, Gurth wrote:
> Erm... I don't suppose you've heard of the bio-industry, with the emphasis
> on "industry"? You can quite easily keep a cow on roughly three square
> meters of floor, and if you really want to, you can even stack multiple
> floors on top of each other. Or, as they're called here, "crate calves" --
> a calf held in a wooden crate, and when it's grown so far it almost won't
> fit in the crate anymore, it goes to the butcher.
Let's not forget the advances in genetics in 206x either. It is very feasible
for them to vat grow cows, and you could cram a lot of vats into a room
if need be.
> It's certainly not good for the animal, but it will provide real beef as
> opposed to soybeef. Such facilities would also be prime targets for eco-
> terrorist groups in SR, IMO, making them heavily guarded (both to keep out
> the terrorists and to prevent anyone from stealing the expensive foods
> being grown in the facili^H^H^Htory).
It is even possible for them to stunt the growth of the brain, so
that these cows are never actually "alive". This may be considered
more humane than slaughter of a live animal, so the eco-terrorists
might leave them alone.
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