ABSTRACT
The anthropologist nervously stroked her antennae. The renewal – or not – of her research grant most likely depended on what she said next.
‘And the update on Earth food production systems?’ The request came from the chief Martian Institute Research Coordi-
nator himself. This was it. ‘Well’, she began, ‘we have observed very different patterns of food
consumption emerging over the last hundred or so Earth years. Some sectors of Earth human population are especially intriguing, and it is these sectors I believe warrant further study.’
