SynPets

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Developed as an offshoot of late 21st century cloning the SynPet is a silicon tissue organism with the cloned attributes of living animals. The company that developed the first “working” models had for years attempted to grow meat for human consumption. In their fervor to bring to market “The Freshest Meat on the Planet” as heralded in their ads, they forgot that most people prefer not to know where their Prime Rib comes from. Their packaged meats although originally quite well received by the public presented a unique problem when the purchaser had to “end the growth process” as the company liked to call it before cooking the meat.

As an engineer I can say they outdid themselves with the packaging as it was basically a miniature incubation chamber that not only kept the meat fresh (alive) but allowed it to continue to grow as long as the required nutrients were supplied.

Even when people realized they were in essence “killing the meat” by taking it out of the packaging the companies sales continued to climb. But it was the unfortunate “eye” incident that ended the grow your own meat at home industry. There was some speculation that the error was actually caused by a group opposed to the packaged living meat that had tampered with the incubators. But it turned out to be nothing more that poor lab handling and a regeneration batch put into production by mistake.

When the first eye appeared it was hushed up with lots of cash but not more than a week later they started appearing in much greater numbers, more than the company could contain. The coup de grâce was when one of the meat growing play sets the company had marketed to kids grew a big beautiful brown cow eye replete with eyelids and long lashes to the son of a prominent politician.

After that fiasco the company was on the verge of bankruptcy until news broke that the kid who had grown the cow eye in his meat kit declared he was not going to “turn it off” and was keeping it as a pet.

A couple of light bulbs went off at the companies marketing department and after developing a silicon tissue to replace the actual living tissue they designed the first SynPet that included cats and dogs. Later you could order up almost any creature as long as they had a sample of its DNA.

And now you know why SynPets are called meat pets.

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