Will Weissbaum · Lead Writer

Cellular meat reproduction, I think, has actually been happening before the current regen tech. The idea of being able to kind of grow meat in a lab: a lot of what the inner systems use for their protein sources would be synthetic meats, where growing actual livestock would be more prohibitive, and actual cow would be a little bit more of a luxury, versus on the frontier, where it's a little bit the opposite, where they don't have the manufacturing plants. So maybe they're actually putting effort into raising livestock for food. But yeah, there's a lot of synthetic meats out there, whether they're using the expensive regeneration, whether someone's trying to regen a chicken leg, I don't know. But yeah, synthetic meats are definitely part of the lore. I guess you could argue, are they really synthetic if they're cellularly identical to actual meat? Maybe they're just meat. We'll talk about that offline.