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You have decided to embrace biocube food rationing- with such widespread damage to your planet's farming industry and supply chain, this is the only method of keeping your people fed- and working to rebuild. You also decide to eat some of this... material yourself, live on air. If any being in your society didn't need to eat this it would be you; but the difference between a boss and a leader is to lead by example...
You sit down at a table, live on air, televised to the nation. Such archaic technology can only broadcast “live” without predictive AI editing and improving the footage; the AI network is still too damaged to be used. You are presented with a hunk of the biocube- and taking your implement, you carve off a corner and put it in your mouth. You visibly retch as you force it down.
<span class="mu-b">”This is fucking horrible.”</span>
The filming crew is stunned. You take another piece, and silently eat it without complaint.
As it turns out, your reaction to the foodstuff was very beneficial. The sort of grim and stoic determination you had to consuming the awful stuff was exactly the sort of attitude your citizens are expected to have during such hard times- and the gesture is appreciated. Another factor you don't quite yet understand is the fact that you are still pretty “cute”. The slip up becomes a viral sensation among the women of the Hegemony; equating the most important and powerful person in their society as their own kids being fussy over eating their vegetables.
Perhaps when you're older and the new AI network is made, you'll have that clip locked away and censored. Will save you some future embarrassment.
With the new Biocube technology approved; several basic flavors are designed and the biomass centrifuges are assembled. While this technology could be miniaturized and put into individual homes for use by families; larger community-sized drums are instead what is issued. You will have slightly less food waste with these, and you can also use them as a way to enforce the rationing laws- those who don't obey won't eat, after all. The Jaxtians descend like locusts; everything from trash, weeds, corpses, pets, plastics, and even clothing can be broken down into some form of organic matter for use in the machines. You also make a law that requires all meals or snacks to have at least some of the Biocube, and given the fact that food waste is promptly made illegal and penalized severely, even high class workers of the Hegemony and your inner circle still make it a part of their daily meals.
