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.

Farber will also mention 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* (metal cooking pot)

Note: You can also choose the Jury Rigging option to fix the food processor making things much easier. It requires 80 Repair, though.

Farber will complain about lack of spices to go with the food and suggest that NCR scientists may know of an ingredient that will enhance the taste. During your quest in Vault 22 you can find notes of spice tests being carried out on animals, resulting in improving their mood. A jar with food additive can be found nearby. You can give it to Farber for extra exp.

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.

A bug exists when fixing the food processor where even with all the required items on the list you still receive the message that you do not have the required parts. This can be corrected by bringing two pots instead of one (per the list). After fixing the food processor however the dialogues only indicate one pot is removed and the second pot remains in your inventory.