35th century food revisited

I discussed this in a previous post but I wanted to revisit the idea of what food will be like in the 35th century.

When Rei is first awakened, in both the original long-form version and the current version of Rome's Revolution, Rome offers him some food. They use a food synthesizer which creates any form of food you want. Rei later uses this to his advantage to create such wonders as coffee, birthday cake and so on. The fact is the Vuduri Rei first encountered on Dara were forced to use food synthesizers because they were on an airless moon with no source of supplies.

But what about food on Earth? On Deucado, we know people eat "real" food in that Rei is involved in creating vast farms, Binoda oversees the ever-growing bison herd and Fridone is managing the creation of the largest sustainable fishing (swishing) fleet in the universe.

But on Earth, what do they eat? Mostly I avoid the issue. Whenever there is action on Earth, there is no time for eating. There was a wonderful luau scene in the original long-form version of Part 3 but it was excised to shrink the size of the book.

So what do Vuduri eat? I cannot tell you for sure but I believe they use some form of food synthesizers in their home but the organic sources are grown. I don't know any other way to reconcile Binoda as an animal husbandry expert if the Vuduri have no use for food.

I remember in the movie "Masters of the Universe" when Courtney Cox introduces the people from the planet Eternia to the wonders of spare ribs. This implies they were vegetarian because some of them voiced disgust when they found out they were eating meat.

I don't think the Vuduri care. I think they have better, or at least different, things to worry about as to whether the food is vegetable or animal in origin. It is all protein to them. Luckily for us, Deucado will eclipse Earth someday as the crown jewel in the empire of Man and there they like real food!