Soy, krill and...rice? Options

[Daddy's Litt...]

In the SR world there is lots of talk about Krill and soy and ‘real food’ and whether it would be a real shortage since VITAS destroyed so much of the world’s population but I was wondering how big a part of people’s world would rice be?

In RL my husband is English and my parents are Japanese. I was raised on my mother’s cooking and my husband and I have each adapted. I’ve learned to cook Yorkshire puddings and different styles of potatoes and my husband has, with some humorous complaints accepted he is eating more rice than he ever thought he would but this makes me think, in the SR world with the Japan-o-corps being so powerful and Japanese culture having far more influence would rice be a bigger part of people’s diet? Maybe as a back lash, not in the UCAS but it is already widely grown in the American south already, there might be closer ties between the CAS and Japan. The Japanese invasion of CFS might have led to changes in the crops there.

More than most grains rice is very labor intensive. Because of the work that goes into making and maintaining the rice fields farmer/peasants are closely bound to them. Some say this is why it became the main crop in feudal Japan. It stopped peasants from moving easily. The same could be done for food crops in the 2070’s could it?