Soylent Green is a dystopian science-fiction movie set in the year 2022, that came out in 1973, where overpopulation, pollution, and climate collapse have pushed society to the brink. The story follows a New York City police detective, Robert Thorn, played by Charlton Heston. Thorn investigates the murder of a wealthy businessman connected to the powerful Soylent Corporation, which produces food for the masses in the form of processed wafers like “Soylent Green.”
As Thorn digs deeper, he uncovers a shocking secret about what Soylent Green is actually made from—one that reveals just how desperate and ethically compromised society has become. The film mixes crime investigation with a bleak vision of the future, exploring themes like resource scarcity, corporate power, and the consequences of environmental neglect.
In Soylent Green, the shocking secret is that Soylent Green is made from human remains. The government and the Soylent Corporation secretly recycle the bodies of the dead into food to sustain the massively overpopulated, resource-starved population.
Now the question becomes, would you eat Soylent Green, if it was the only thing keeping you alive? I mean, one would think in today's world we could come up with food sources from plants or other synthetic sources, rather then from human remains. But, let's just go with the premise of the movie. What if your only food source, to keep you alive, was made from humans. Could you survive? I would love to say no, but if you were in that situation, starving, would you eat it? At least in the movie they made it into a little green cracker. That would be easier to eat then just a human steak made out of someone's butt!
Let's just hope it never comes to this in life. I guess if it does, we probably have bigger issues happening, and the end would probably be near!
"Soylent Green is people!"
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