Re: [GZG] Shipping sheep

I would suspect that given how modern beef isn't shipped on the hoof
long distances like it was before easy and relatively cheap cold storage
came along. It stands to reason that if you have sufficient cryosleep
systems to keep people alie and thaw them easily, then thered be easy
and cheap cryostorage for meats. There would be ways to ship live cattle
but likely as embryos would be far more cheap.	

--
Ryan Gill
sent from my treo

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From:  "Robert Mayberry" <robert.mayberry@gmail.com>
Subj:  Re: [GZG] Shipping sheep
Date:  Mon May 19, 2008 7:36 pm
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To:  gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu

That would make for an interesting meat market. I'm not convinced that
mass transport of livestock (vs raising it on-site) is economically
viable, but I'm still running the numbers so I'm not sure. But if it
*IS* viable, then you get a weird case where livestock might be graded
based on where on the ship they were kept-- veal in low gravity or
even free-fall, and tougher cows in the high-grav area.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:57:08PM -0700, Peter Engebos wrote:
>>In Traveller Supplement 7 - Traders and Gunboats, the Empress Marava
far trader is specifically listed as having extra large low berths (Cryo
units) for the transport of live stock.
>
> Interesting; I hadn't remembered that one. I was actually thinking of
> the Vaca class from 2300AD (in Ships of the French Arm), which has to
do
> it with spin gravity.

-- 
Robert Mayberry

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