I’ve not played an RE since the one on the Dreamcast.
Side thought: I set it up this way so there’s always a reference but it’s never absolute. Hell, it could be dead wrong in one setting or have serious issues (“They didn’t realize the real proven was…”). Did that so there’s no canon tripping over.
You dodged a bullet barrage on everything between 4 and 7.
shrugs It’s not my thing. I do live me some fighting games though.
Hrm… maybe a different term should show up lest it throw folks looking for LibreOffice here.
I don’t know if you could get fecal-feed fluffies for food approved, at least not here with SENASA but no idea how low the USDA is willing to go.
Also did I miss something or recycled fluffies are not included as a source of food? why is that? risk of spongiform diesease?
In my HC fluffies are resistant to prion disease because one of the animals in which its based , the rabbit, is prion resistant thanks to sequence S174. Of course hasbio didnt plan for this since the last thing they thought was that their super-premium biotoys would be used as cheap food, just an accidental “feature”.
I didn’t include recycled fluffies on this because I didn’t think of it. I think that’d be a separate piece.
I went off another author (I think Differential Sloth?) that had a story where prion disease was a concern. So, at the end of the story all that really changed of substance was recycled fluffies lost their heads before being processed.
My base assumption is any sufficiently large industry that is regulated will try to subvert the regulating body one way or another. Either they’ll try to remove regulations OR weaponize it so new competitors can’t come into the market easily. At least for the US.
If we go with “fluffies aren’t legally animals,” that leaves them unregulated in a fair number of ways. This includes diet. I wrote this particular piece with the understanding its context could be changed. So, maybe it is in the past or future for a particular story. Maybe it was a hopeful advancement. Maybe a disgusting past. Regardless, its there as I tried to figure out a way to make use of the poop-eating silliness fluffies have as accepted canon.
I mean, hell, I’ve got one fraction of an idea where ferals have poop as their “omg we’ve come to this” emergency food supply for winter.
Breeding as pets its barely regulated but for fluffies for human consumption are very strictly regulated and in some places even banned.
I saw the generations of manure are pasteurized- is the purpose then the breakdown of cellulose to allow other nutrients to be absorbed?
Following the kombucha train of thought, how would one factor in a supplement of that? I’m thinking down-to-earth hippie just sharing their own brew by adding it to their water
There is a distinction between 1st and 2nd gen manure- how would that be determined? Is each food option being separated out? It doesnt make much sense cause even if you serve separate meals of the individual components there’s no guarantee of what the contents of the fluffy poop are actually
There was no mention of whether the poop would be solid or liquid- would the consistency of the stool be handled by fiber supplements?
I don’t intend for this to be interrogatory, just a series of questions I thought of while reading your post and all the comments
Right. Since the generally accepted idea is that fluffies don’t have very good digestive systems that a lot of nutrients aren’t absorbed. Cellulose can be hard to digest for us (oh immortal corn, plus some veggies NEED to be cooked for us to get maximum benefit from), nevermind a fluffy. So, you’ve got all this poop which is really full of undigested material. You can make wonder manure fertilizer, or pasteurize it to make it safe for consumption. Well and hopefully do something about the smell and taste to its more palateable.
I don’t know enough about kombucha, truthfully.
1st generation means the fluffies ate normally, and it is the resulting fecal matter. 2nd generation would be feces resulting from eating a meal supplemented with pre-digested material. You’d keep them separate by timing: feed them normally at night (body can rest and focus on digestion), poop before breakfast (collect 1st generation), breakfast can have 1st generation, poop before lunch (collect 2nd generation), lunch might have 2nd generation, poop before dinner (3rd generation), normal dinner.
OR, you can give younger fluffies, expectant mothers, nursing mothers, etc., whole/normal food, then give the other fluffies 1st and 2nd generation supplemented meals. Or just 1st generation.
Fiber rich foods are cheap, so I think having that in there is a no brainer. What’s the poop like? Dunno. Thing is it gets pastuerized, and after that can get further processed. If its runny or liquidy it can get reduced via evaporation (recycling the water) til its more manageable. If its solid, water can be added for the same reasons.
The big thing is for fermentation there still needs to be sugars present, and that’s not hard for original food or the fecal matter. Its all about pre-digestion, maximizing nutrient availability, and minimizing waste. Arguably the trade-off is you lose the fertilizer potency, but given the volume of poop made? I don’t think its that big a deal. Additionally, letting the poop ferment would generate methane, which could then be used for electricity generation, warming during cold times, harvesting for sale, etc.