Posted on 09/26/2009 12:57:07 PM PDT by decimon
The Space Merchants
http://davidszondy.com/Radio.htm#merchants
Others went back to the source and saw a potential market for spanking-fresh chicken heart, as in Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's classic science fiction novel the Space Merchants, wherein the world's main source of meat is a monstrosity known as Chicken little. Here is a description of the working day of Herrarra, head slicer in charge of harvesting the meat of the gigantic organ,
The aristocrat of Dorm Ten was Herrerra. After ten years with Chlorella he had worked his way up-- topographically it was down-- to Master Slicer. He worked in the great, cool vault underground, where Chicken Little grew and was cropped by him and other artisans. He swung a sort of two-handed sword that carved off great slabs of tissue, leaving it to lesser packers and trimmers and their faceless helpers to weigh it, shape it, freeze it, cook it, flavor it, package it, and ship it off to the area on quota for the day.
He had more than a production job. He was a safety valve. Chicken Little grew and grew, as she had been growing for decades. Since she had started as a lump of heart tissue, she didn't know any better than to grow up against a foreign body and surround it. She didn't know any better than to grow and fill her concrete vault and keep growing, compressing her cells and rupturing them. As long as she got nutrient, she grew. Herrera saw to it that she grew round and plump, that no tissue got old and tough before it was sliced, that one side was not neglected for the other.
Thanks thecodont, excellent link.
Can’t help but think of replicators on Star Trek. Okay, so they work on the molecular level and not the cellular level, but still, as a long time trekkie, I keep having ‘Wow! They weren’t that far off the mark’ moments, as technology advances...
This “invention” is just a design for a container. It doesn’t actually do anything.
(Like that other winner, the Teleportation Fridge...)
Soylent, Earl Grey!
From the looks of it , it meerly rehydrates jerky.
If real animal muscle cells are used, something somewhere has to die.
Or like the old joke with the 3 legged pig.. You don’t eat a hog like that all at once.
No tanks. I'll take mine on the hoof. YThat tank stuff is so full of hormones that everyone who ingests it will grow extra thingies on their bodies.I do not want cancer.
Never could figure out what it was, or what it came from.
Maybe they were using a prototype of this machine, developed in Area 51?
mmm mmm mmm
Looks neat. If they can actually build the thing I think I’ll buy one.
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