Neil wrote:

In fact this is something I 've brought into some of my fiction. In Wit and Wisdom (Star 3) Travis has a meal of vat-cultured beef and veggies. A further elaboration might be to have it such that 'real' meat from living animals has acquired luxury status. I can well imagine Servalan extolling its superiority over the cultured stuff, possibly even imputing it with quasi-mystic powers.

I seem to recall writing something of the sort -- based I think largely on the conversation about coffee in '1984'.

To a large extent, of course, food snobbery along these lines already exists -- I'd guess organic or free-range foods are consumed as often because they're more expensive (and 'therefore' better) as for environmental or animal rights reasons.

I don't see Servalan in those terms, though, except insofar as it would be a social necessity; for example, in 'Trial':

Bercol: I wish I'd known that this was going to drag on so. I'd have brought my own chef. As I recall, Space Command's cuisine is appalling. Servalan: Pathetic!

Tavia