Two-hundred-ish years in the future, humans have become really good at tinkering with food genetics to boost their productivity.

Which is probably a good thing, because the majority of humans live in giant space stations, and so being able to grow food which is tolerant of extremes in temperature, gravity, radiation, etc. is really helpful in keeping everyone fed. Even so, getting truly fresh food is something of a small luxury - you can probably afford it, but not for everything.

One side effect of this is that almost no meat or animal products actually come from animals as we would recognize them. Even seafood products are derived from massive cell-culture farms, rather than complete organisms. Depending on your point of view this may or may not be a good thing; there definitely are people out there who claim to be able to tell the difference.