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From: Dr. TripleSpanks
To: Dwayne Monroe
Re: Carbon Age Meat Wars! ------
Dwayne,
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner -- received your most recent message only moments ago. You know how spatial anomalies can be! Anyway, re: your question -- do debates over vegetarianism and the ethics of meat eating persist into the 26th century -- in short: no.
This is mostly due to the Watersian Jihad -- in which, high quality food and yoga practice energized followers of late 20th, early 21st century ultra-natural/quality uber alles ideo-foodie Talib Alice Waters staged a global coup, ushering in an age of strictly enforced food aesthetics. (Sorry for the chock-a-block neologism dropping, that's just how we tumble in Century 26!)
At first, it seemed like a golden age -- well, of food, at any rate. Other stuff, such as the growing nanodust crisis and the Liquid Winter crime syndicate, still sucked with pr0nstar ferocity.
I wrote "seemed" because, in time, it proved to be a nightmare. You couldn't just have eggs over easy or a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, you first had to contemplate the ingredients, mindfully apply them, bow in the direction of Berkeley and write an essay on the subtle flavors about to play across your palate like unicorns dancing beneath a rainbow.
Also (and this really made the situation intolerable) the defrosted and nanobot reanimated body of Jordan Hayes routinely appeared on InterThink to hector the few who dared publicly criticize the Great Feeder.
Naturally, a revolution occurred. And, just as naturally, it was led by an AI, a transgenic man/bear and an accountant.
Following the revo.....
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