[TheWanderingJewels]

time fora few assumptions about food tech in SR to get updated....

http://www.sciencealert.com/lab-grown-burger-patty-cost-drops-from-325-000-to-12

[jim1701]

Still not going to eat it.   

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

Apparently, unless they told you, you wouldn't know.  And going by technicalities, even if it's 100% beef-genetic-origin vat-grown flesh, it's still 100% real beef - even more so than 'pink slime', which means if they could kick this into high gear, McDonalds would corner the market on fast food and undercut everyone while still being able to claim 100% real beef.  (Not from cows, you understand.)

[Senko]

I remember the 100% Australian beef adds back when McDonald's bought their meat from a company named 100% Australian beef or the one they ran when the beef used in their patties became export grade quality.

[Aryeonos]

Isnt there like "Frankenburger" in shadowrun? I thought vat grown meat was already commonly circulated.

[Top Dog]

I remember the 100% Australian beef adds back when McDonald's bought their meat from a company named 100% Australian beef or the one they ran when the beef used in their patties became export grade quality.

http://www.snopes.com/business/market/allbeef.asp

Anyway, nice trend. I'd definitely eat this if it became economical (and tasty); it's sweet sweet meat without all the murderous and un-ecological undertones.

[Pixie]

Isnt there like "Frankenburger" in shadowrun? I thought vat grown meat was already commonly circulated.

The majority of protein in Shadowrun is mycoprotein, soy, or krill.  But there is occasionally "real meat" on the market.  I wouldn't be surprised to find that the majority of this "real meat" is vat-grown, but I can't find anything that specifies it as such.  What's really disturbing is how easily something like Soylent Green would work in Shadowrun.  We generate tissues all the time in vats, we have thousands of homeless and SINless going missing in every sprawl, and the cost of food keeps going up and up.  It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if someone was using all of that to create a new source of protein.  Hell, Tamanous technically does this already with Asamando.  *shudder*

[Senko]

Its life in the big city, personally I doubt they use SINless though (unless their the type to already feed on people) for the simple fact that you don't know where they've been and you'd have to spend a fortune on tests looking for diseases or the like whereas once a Vat growing meat supply is set up you can run it in a hermetically sealed environment so its nice and allergen free.

There's actually a fair amount of meat around if you can afford it I think since high lifestyle up always eat it.

[rednblack]

Prion disease would be a very real risk with soylent green, not that it'd slow anyone making it down.

[HarshRhettoric]

This reminds me of corpse starch wafers in Dark Heresy.  Why not market the stuff?

You could pitch it like Chairman Yang in Alpha Centauri:

It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.  It's so North Korea, I love it.

[Aryeonos]

Well, to take soylant green to a more reasonable tone there was the decomposition vats in Water World. You aren't eating garbage reconstituted into food directly, you're just using it as fertilizer. So, you could use the dead and biological refuse to supplement your soil, then use whatever you grow to make your food. Not as crazy or unethical that way, still a bit of a leap for our current day scruples.

[MarmaladeEffect]

I remember the 100% Australian beef adds back when McDonald's bought their meat from a company named 100% Australian beef or the one they ran when the beef used in their patties became export grade quality.

McDonald's burgers are actually 100% beef, and have been that way for a long time (I think probably all the way to the start of the chain, but don't quote me). The catch is that 100% beef is not the same as, say, 100% beef steak. More or less, as long as it's a part of the cow, it's beef. McDonald's is actually a little better than that. They don't use the absolute worst-quality beef like pink slime - that mostly goes to things like federally subsidized school lunches. The real garbage at McDonald's is everything other than the burger patties, like the sodas, fries, and "shakes".