--- Neil Faulkner N.Faulkner@tesco.net wrote:
Absolutely. In fact this is something I 've brought into someof my fiction. In Wit and Wisdom (Star 3) Travis has a meal of vat-cultured beef and veggies. A further elaboration might be to have it such that 'real' meat from living animals has acquired luxury status. I can well imagine Servalan extolling its superiority over the cultured stuff, possibly even imputing it with quasi-mystic powers.
I can see it now:
Jarriere: Why did you have the cook shot Madam ? Servalan: He served Tofu Jarriere: I see Servalan: Do you see, Jarriere ? Do you really see ? Jarriere: (nodding) No Servalan: My political success has been based on three things. My dress sense, my consummate ruthlessness and my partiality for Pate de foie gras. Obviously the cook was a traitor. Jarriere: You can't trust anyone these days can you.
Or Servalan at a resturaunt with Jarvik, Shad and Dastor:
Servalan: I'll have steak Waiter: What about the vegetables ? Servalan: Oh, they'll have steak too.
On a related subject, the alien race in Iain M. Bank's book "Excession" absolutely refused to eat vat grown meat on the grounds that there was no point in eating the stuff if something hadn't suffered for it.
I know, I'm wittering.
Stephen.
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