The Dietary Requirements of a Star Fleet Officer

[gguilford72]

They have replicators, so they can just synthesize a steak, no need for farms or exploitation of animals.

[brooksdanielgary]

Until a cow learns to talk, I'm going to keep eating my burgers without the slightest bit of guilt.

[legacy5k]

@brooksdanielgary

Hey, by that logic human babies are fair game! Delicious!

[brooksdanielgary]

@legacy5k Babies learn to talk ....

[bubbamittens]

@brooksdanielgary So it's okay to eat people with mental disorders that disallow them to talk? What about deaf people?

[428ghost]

"You've seen us eat something as fresh and tasty as meat, but we actually order in from KFC."

[cilcannonvryce]

Human rights, or animal rights. That is the question of our time until some asshole invents a replicator.

[L7world]

PETA finally wins in the 24th century!

[neoregulus777]

BUUUUT WE HAVE SEEN HUMANS EAT MEAT!

I love that guy's voice.

[willobi]

i felt moslims were fussy eaters but these ailen freaks gimme a brake.

[CircleVisionWolf]

Yar: "Their live animals were beamed aboard, we were going to preserve the meat for them but they said we must bring it to them alive."

Riker: "Then do so."..."We no longer enslave animals for food purposes."

This is an example of bad writing. Too many careless contradictions, it doesn't even make sense. Nonetheless, it's awesome that the overall message is that they no longer enslave animals.

[CircleVisionWolf]

However it's possible that "preserve the meat" might have been preceded by recording the DNA with a tricorder and entering the information into the replicators. It's open to imagination. Even so, it's hard to imagine that starfleet officers would slaughter an animal in the 24th century.

[charleem]

@CircleVisionWolf IT'S NOT REAL!

[HotButterOnToast]

@CircleVisionWolf They would have done it anyway for diplomatic reasons, that's the point. He's not just going to say "no! you asshole!"

[Oiyuki]

barbaric? sense when!?!