Rolling through the streets of Edinburgh, Valerie kept her eyes firmly on the ground in front of her, not bothering to admire or even glance at the buildings and scenery around her. There were a few reasons for that.
One, there was barely any scenery to look at. Over the years, development had spread so that even the greenest countries like Bonnie Scotland had been overrun by housing and corporate facilities.
When they had invented 'Cruelty Free Meat' - which was essentially lab grown animals that were made without brains, consciousness or anything that made them alive, and were in fact just 'living' hunks of meat that grew to be harvested.
Which meant that farm space for real cows, pigs and so forth rapidly dwindled until the animals they were trying to save from cruelty were rapidly killed off for development.
