Quote:Once again, the //Grover's Corners// is unique in this regard, in that not only do they have about a hundred acres of pasture and farmland immediately usable, they //are// using it already -- just not for beef cattle. They are the number one supplier of fresh eggs in Fenspace, as well as the occasional chicken. And they also have //game// -- at least a dozen deer, among many other wild animals, are known to have been trapped within the hull of the //Corners// the night the dome was raised and the ship launched. The crew allows limited hunting -- gudgingly permitted by their environmental AI Gaia after much negotiation -- to keep their numbers manageable.-- Bob
**Red Meat** is something that's almost completely unavailable in Fenspace. Meat requires either large amounts of grazing land or some form of industrial lab culture to be cost-effective, and so far nobody's managed to create an effective industrial carniculture plant (the restrictions of grazing land are left as an exercise for the student). Prices for a decent steak (or pork chops, lamb chops... any form of meat that isn't chicken, fish or rabbit, really) range from expensive-but-still-reasonable on Stellvia and in the lunar cities to arm-leg-and-firstborn on Venus, Mars and Ganymede. And let's not get into the price for a Big Mac... you thought Japan had it bad.
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.