28 Mar
2001
28 Mar
'01
8:07 p.m.
From: Mistral mistral@centurytel.net
So then you would find vat-grown meat acceptable, as long as whatever original material was required to start the growth didn't require killing the animal?
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.
And how would you feel about that plant life on Centero with the intelligence rating?
What, Vila?
Neil