Poor Meat Never Makes Good Soup

 is an unmarked quest in Fallout: New Vegas. It is given by Cpl. William Farber at Camp McCarran Concourse upon offering him help. The Courier is required to negotiate with three local meat traders in order to diversify the camp's rations.

Quick walkthrough
Ask Blake at Crimson Caravan Camp, Ruby Nash in Primm, and Fitz at Grub n' Gulp Rest Stop about the possibility of meat supply contracts with Camp McCarran.

Detailed walkthrough
Note: Having 40 barter will convince Blake at Crimson caravan, to trade for some of the overstocked vegetables Cpl. William Farber mentioned at the start of the quest.

Note: Once doing the above note you need not to contact the rest of the vendors.

Blake will also mention about his broken food processor that the NCR had been "fixing" for a while now and will no longer work. He will give you a list of materials needed for the repairs:

-2 pilot lights -2 pressure cookers -2 conductors -2 firehose nozzles -4 fission batteries -2 steam gauge assemblies -2 sensor modules -5 scrap metal -1 pot (assuming metal cooking pot)

Note: You can also choose the Jury Rigging option to fix the food processor making things much easier.

Journal entries
Misc Meat Vendor List

Bugs
There appears to be a bug in this quest where you are unable to talk to either Ruby Nash and Fitz about the food supplies. This is due to a simple scripting error, which can be resolved through using the toolset. In the dialogue sections of Ruby Nash and Fitz there can be found the topics of food supplies for Camp McCarran (VFreeformMcCarranPrimmRubyNashTopic000 - only one needed to change for Ruby to work and VDialogueVegasEast1EFitzTopic006 - ...009 for Fitz). In there you only need to change every comparison-value referencing to the QuestVariable 'VFreeformMcCarran',iMessHallStatus (Value 2.00) from '==' to '>='. after that you only need to save the new modded file to your ...Fallout New Vegas\data\ folder and activate the new .esp file in your launcher and talk to each one of them and it will work fine.