Posted on 02/17/2022 5:00:41 PM PST by BipolarBob
Cassidy Ward Wed, February 16, 2022, 11:09 AM CST Released in 1973, Soylent Green imagines a dystopian nightmare version of 2022 in which overpopulation and climate disaster have made the Earth nearly unlivable. Resource and housing shortages have exacerbated class stratification, with the wealthy living in lush, reinforced houses while the rest of the population is scrounging for scraps just to survive.
With not enough to eat, half of the world's population is sustained only by a staple food source created and sold by the Soylent Corporation. It comes in various colors, the best of which is the titular Soylent Green. The company bills their new green variety as more nutritious, having been manufactured from oceanic plankton, but by the end we know the truth. Soylent Green is people!
The film was a stark commentary about the dangers of destroying our environment and the lengths to which some corporations could go to maintain profit. Now that we're actually in 2022, the world has seen an increase in novelty foods, including one supposed meal replacement shake named after the famed movie.
The question now is, could we really make Soylent? And would we want to?
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Prions.
I don’t think it’s a good solution. As far as I know, we’ve never even found out how Michael Rockefeller taste, have we?
Ask the Donner party. They did it in the Ukraine.
Don’t laugh AOC probably has a bill to replace beef with this ‘substitute’ while also saving the planet at the same time 🤪
Well as far as I am concerned, the entire demonrat party can eat me
Zeke Emanuel spoke of this years ago.
And shooting green goo into space.
Like Oysters? Just guessing.
Best with lots of saltines and hot sauce
On a serious note, the answer to world hunger is freedom without foreign aid. Giving free food to nations in need undercuts local farmers and the development of local agriculture.
What’s up next? Drinking the blood of terrorized children?
I think liberals would taste nasty, and you’d have to cook them really hard to kill off their diseases. I’d be terrified that their insanity is caused by a chemical imbalance, something not removed by cooking.
Yes, the spike prions are the worst.
Lol!
Alferd Packer did it in 1874 Colorado.
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