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https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/edgyinnovative, or at the cutting edge, with the concomitant qualities of intensity and excitement
- "Sentient Fruit", Orion's Arm, https://orionsarm.com/eg-articl/47843d45abc1cOne of the more disturbing pleasures developed by biotechnology is sentient fruit. Sentient fruits are traditional fruits gengineered to contain a neural net making them able to sense touch and pain. Using a simple biotech neural interface the experience of the fruit can be experienced by the eater.
Various variants exist among the frugivore subcultures, with seeds smuggled where the practice if forbidden and sold at exorbitant prices. Proden oranges and related species combine pain receptors with a pleasure system. Somatique fruits produce drugs and experience modulators during eating, and are often interfaced to sexual response systems. The infamous Trip apples even include a limited ganglion-brain in the core to make the eating experience even more powerful by adding a mind experiencing the eating to the mix. The most extreme form of truly sentient fruit is the Orinoco Black, a modified pomegranate with a network of subturing seed-brains that link together and with the eater, producing a hallucinatory experience strengthened by the use of the seed-brains as temporary nodes in a cognition-enhancing mind extension network during the eating. Ripe individuals can reach 0.68 on the Turing scale, and the frugivore ring stopped in 8094 by Orinoco authorities were using virch training to promote both their mental development and dreaming themes.
The legality of sentient fruit is highly variable; most cultures find the practice of eating sensitive food disagreeable if not necessarily immoral (this depends on the local views of the ethical relationship between rights, level of consciousness and level of pain experience). Subturing fruits are widely banned, making seed smuggling a popular low-risk smuggling target. The frugivore subcultures, closely related to various carnivore and hunting-mysticism subcultures, have remained part of the underbelly of the wormhole nexus for millennia, kept alive largely by the extensive taboos surrounding the practice
- "Sapient Food", Orion's Arm, https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4823a5b91c3fbFood in any shape or form that can feel pain, have the ability to solve problems and think, and is equipped with vocal cords which allow it to beg for mercy as it is being eaten. Sapient food in the shape of tiny bionts is especially popular, since they constantly try to run away. Banned throughout much of the terragen sphere except for some barbarous regions.
There are various ways of classifying sapient food - for example sapient food that dosn't want to be eaten, and food that does. The latter generally has pleasure receptors instead of pain, perverse psychological (willing victim inclination) and/or memetic engineering, and so on. Also, in cases of willing developed vertebrate-type sapient food, the blood vessels would automatically close to prevent shock from blood loss setting in when being eaten, and so on.
Very often humanoid sapient food is tiny; there is generally less squeamishness about eating tiny humanoids than about eating those the same size as oneself.
Growing or nanofacturing and distributing even tiny sapient bionts that want to be eaten is illegal in much of the Civilized Galaxy. Even so, there are always those regions, especially some more barbaric non-aligned worlds, and some antinomian NoCoZo polities and free zones, where one can go to find sapient food, whether sentient fruits or even fully developed miniature or larger bionts. What is legal and what not also varies from polity to polity, even within a single sephirotic empire, although all strongly aligned worlds and polities have very similar legal/sentient rights. And obviously, sapient food is not be possible in angelnetted worlds and polities that recognised sentient rights
Very often, sapient food is among the "forbidden delights" that some Free Zones and antinomian polities use to tempt perverse visitors (Sensationalist Tourism).