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Domesticates

Mused

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I just read an interesting note that 90% of our animal food comes from just 14 species

Earth has a LOT of animal life of all types, and only that tiny number is used

What are the most common domesticates in known space

I would hazard dogs, chickens (very portable and 2 foods come from them), goats (durable), horses (useful), pigs (durable) and guinea pigs (portable, low maintenace)
 
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mused:
I just read an interesting note that 90% of our animal food comes from just 14 species

Earth has a LOT of animal life of all types, and only that tiny number is used

What are the most common domesticates in known space

I would hazard dogs, chickens (very portable and 2 foods come from them), goats (durable), horses (useful), pigs (durable) and guinea pigs (portable, low maintenace)
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You forget cats and birds. Cats are a likely spacer pet due to both their high equilibrium (no space-sick kitties) and their anti-vermin tendencies. The primary disadvantages are that they shed and tend to get into small warm places (both bad ideas around electronic-filled cabinets and consoles.

Birds also possess a high equilibrium and some species can also be trained to speak words (a neat rick for a pet aboard a ship in week-long jump). Their primary disadvantages as pets are they are messy (flinging their food seed all over the place) and they can carry diseases that are transmittable to humans.

These are just the most common ones from Earth. Vland, Sylea, Regina, or any other planet would have as wide a variety (if not wider) of pets to chose from, including reptilian or insectoid "buddies."

Simon Jester



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With all the food animals and plants available, it's rather remarkable that just 14 animal species comprise an estimated 90% of the common diet.

A similar low number of plant species (corn, wheat, rice, potatoes, etc.) comprise the plant side of the house.

It would be cool to "imagin-eer" up what the most common foodstuffs of the Third Imperium and other major race polities might be.

I have been working on a similar project at the Traveller Wiki in-between everything else.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
 
nah, there will be meat machines. already pre-programmed with the appropriate dna sequences, the meat machines will turn out protein product manufactured on the spot and dispensed from a tube as needed.

"what do you want for breakfast, johnnie?"

"I WANT SHARK MEAT!"

(beep beep squirt) "there you go. and you, mary?"

"I WANT 30% PORK, 40% DODO-BIRD, and 30% HAMSTER!"

(beep beep beep beep squirt) "and there you go."
 
nah, there will be meat machines. already pre-programmed with the appropriate dna sequences, the meat machines will turn out protein product manufactured on the spot and dispensed from a tube as needed.
There will be carniculture vats, yes, but deservedly or undeservedly carniculture meat will be considered inferior to "real" meat (Or the other way around. "Real" meat will be luxury items). That's how it works IMTU anyway.


Hans
 
"Real" meat will be luxury items

likely real food of any kind will be available only to the upper elite, especially in places like glisten.

hey, maybe that's why in ct you can roll up grain or other food-stuffs in the random cargo lists. you could charge 10kCr/ton to ship it, and the buyer charges 100Cr/ounce on selling it ....

... food piracy. "hand over the peaches or your navigator gets it" ...

... an entire culture that lives exclusively on artificial food. in a survival situation everyone else looks at the bubbling pot of rabbit stew and thinks "mmmmm", but the artificialist thinks "EEEEWWWW!"
 
Depends on how much OTU background you accept.
The Vilani found most (if not all) life on their "homeworld" indigestible, so had to develop techniques to make the food more acceptable. In GURP: IW they were hit with Terran diseases. My take is that once the survivors were aware of Terran foods, they might leap to our cows, pigs and chickens and all the rest. Except of course for "tradition" minded...
 
We will bring our dogs and cats with us. Unless that virus kills them all and we have to start bringing apes for companions...
 
cats - vermin control, companion
dogs - hunting, companion
chickens - meat and eggs
sheep - meat and clothing
pigs - meat
cows/goats - milk and meat
horse/oxen - riding, racing, carrying, pulling
hawks - hunting

i can see cats and dogs being taken everywhere but i imagine a lot of the rest of that list could be replaced by an alien version that provides the same function - riding/racing creatures in particular.
 
3 species of monkey are in relatively common use for service animals, as are the nearly ubiquitous dogs, the occasional pig and miniature horse.

In descending order of frequency. ..
dogs, monkeys, pigs, horses.

All of which are also on menus in various places.

Spider Monkeys and Capuchin Monkeys both make reasonable service animals for domestic tasks.
 
One sci-fi novel I read had small orbital 0-G habitats with corridors lined with a pulpy-leaved plant that served as food for both the humans and the rabbits that ran free through the corridors (but which were kept from other areas, the rabbits also served as food for the humans), with the rabbit-droppings (and human waste) being processed into fertilizer for the plants.
 
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