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Is eating people a solution to world hunger? The science behind 'Soylent Green'
SYFY ^ | 2/16/2022 | cassidy ward

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?

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Food; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: itspeople; soylentgreen
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To: BipolarBob

Just don’t eat clowns. They taste funny.


21 posted on 02/17/2022 5:28:37 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: BipolarBob

The solution to feeding people is developing oil and gas reserves. Also, get governments OUT of it. Taxation and regulation are sure paths to world hunger.


22 posted on 02/17/2022 5:28:52 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: BipolarBob

Hunan meat may look this good, but the mad cow disease would be the trap.

23 posted on 02/17/2022 5:33:56 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: BipolarBob
I've heard of eating purple people.
24 posted on 02/17/2022 5:34:28 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: lizma2

Remember this old book advertised in Western magazines years ago?
Cannibal Coast.. [Edward W Kilman] — History of the savage Karankawa Indians, who once inhabited the coastal regions of Texas.

Bernal Diaz(Conquest of Mexico) tells of how the Aztecs ate the sacrificial bodies of young Indians. He was not sure if Cortez’s men had also eaten them or not in the food prepared for them by the Aztecs. Montezuma did chow down on such sacrifices.

And lets not forget the remains of human meals found by archaeologists in the 4-Corners area of New Mexico and Colorado.


25 posted on 02/17/2022 5:37:21 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (FB Jail for saying the gov't forces churches to accept fags who then molest kids.)
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To: BipolarBob

“Left haunch, the right haunch is the working haunch andmit is too tough.”

Old western script,


26 posted on 02/17/2022 5:44:51 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: BipolarBob

Jonathan Swift thought so but only Irish children ...


27 posted on 02/17/2022 5:49:00 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: BipolarBob

The solution to world hunger is for the hungry places to not farm like it’s still the bronze age.


28 posted on 02/17/2022 5:50:39 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: BipolarBob

We all have our limits. I won’t eat a progressive. It would make me nauseous.


29 posted on 02/17/2022 5:52:05 PM PST by chuckee
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Much world hunger is man made by corrupt governments.


30 posted on 02/17/2022 5:55:54 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: BipolarBob

We can have get-togethers to eat the people. They will be known as “Donner Parties.”


31 posted on 02/17/2022 5:57:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: jonrick46

Way too fatty to be a healthy food.


32 posted on 02/17/2022 5:58:08 PM PST by Glenmore
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To: dsrtsage

Bwa ha.


33 posted on 02/17/2022 5:59:56 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: BipolarBob

It used to be that the underclass — those with no property or employment — would die of whatever, and take their bad genetic traits and cultural behaviors with them. Now we actually breed the lowest of the low. Until something changes, we are on a sure road to ruin.


34 posted on 02/17/2022 6:21:45 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Read that the Iroquois would eat the children of the tribe they captured in front of their parents. Or cut off one of their captured peoples body part and eat that in front of them. (These were in paper written by early French missionaries.)

Always heard the early whites in America oppressed the Native Americans.

I say we brought them Christianity. Changed some of the bad ones to the better.

Wasn't our first Thanksgiving based on Native Americans helping out early American settlers at Plymouth Rock? (That was a major experiment in socialism prior to Thanksgiving. What an expected failure on steroid.)

Another interesting thing I've read about history and archaeology was even though Native Americans hadn't invented the wheel there was an archaeological dig in central America found a toy wheel barrel with a wheel. Where did it come from and why didn't it catch on?

35 posted on 02/17/2022 6:29:28 PM PST by lizma2
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To: BipolarBob

36 posted on 02/17/2022 6:35:32 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: BipolarBob

That movie didn’t really come true this year.
How many women look like Leigh Taylor Young?


37 posted on 02/17/2022 6:59:58 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: metmom

Unfortunately, corrupt governments are as ubiquitous as hunger.


38 posted on 02/17/2022 7:08:41 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: frank ballenger

As long as they got the grapefruits.


39 posted on 02/17/2022 7:10:27 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: BipolarBob

>>It comes in various colors, the best of which is the titular Soylent Green.

I’ve always been partial to titular myself.


40 posted on 02/18/2022 12:20:50 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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