It was hard to gauge if the impact of such reports was positive or negative for all those planets that found themselves in Omniworld. For the niche population of vegetarians the news brought a predictable division in factions that further fragmented the ideology behind calling yourself a vegetarian.
On the first group were those like Floretta, who accepted the idea that she was no longer a vegetarian, not after mistakenly thinking those delicious planets she ate weren't being enriched by all kinds of life that met their demise in her fingers when she scraped those continents, in her lips and mouth when she savoured the planets, on her teeth when she chomped down on the delicious terrains to get the most out of them, in her stomach where they had no alternative to become part of her. The logic behind it was simple enough, she wasn't going to give up eating those delicious planets even if it meant changing her beliefs.
On the second group was people like Elena who promptly rejected a draft that was supposed to encourage being vegetarian but now talked about embracing an opposite view. For her, those news meant the best course of action was quite simply to forget about planets entirely, as delicious and nutritive as they could be, if you couldn't be absolutely certain you wouldn't be murdering sentient beings with them there it was not worth it, for all the reasons Floretta originally outlined. Even if the report meant she was never a vegetarian in the first place and the planets she ate contained thousands or millions of victims, it was just time to start over and do it right.
And finally, there were those willing to compromise at some level, willing to redefine what vegetarianism meant. After all, humans had to eat something and could weird sentient life forms from inorganic matter be considered meat? what if the habitants of a planet wanted to be eaten and saw it as a way to fulfill their destiny? or could research be fixed and planets able to be correctly identified as vegetarian approved? As long as standards could be redefined, planet consumption wouldn't be entirely ruled out for them.
In any case, there were more uses for planets in omniworld than consumption and research.
What happens next?