( Soy protein and beans are a welcome alternative. He knows red meat is rare to nonexistent here, but it's something of an instinct to check. Particularly when the color red is involved. The fungi... that was a stand-alone occurrence, he can blot that out of his mind.
He glances over his shoulder at her, eyebrows lifted. )
No tomato in the asteroid belt? A lack of terraforming, or just a lack of popularity?
( Soy protein makes sense. He's making an educated guess that red meat may be as rare there as it is here. He can't imagine there's a lot of room for cattle production in a relatively small, hermetically sealed environment. The methane production alone could present a challenge. )
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He glances over his shoulder at her, eyebrows lifted. )
No tomato in the asteroid belt? A lack of terraforming, or just a lack of popularity?
( Soy protein makes sense. He's making an educated guess that red meat may be as rare there as it is here. He can't imagine there's a lot of room for cattle production in a relatively small, hermetically sealed environment. The methane production alone could present a challenge. )