Soylent Green: I can't believe I ate the whole thing!

I will never forget that movie but...there are millions of acres of land that could be used to raise crops in the United States but how many people want to do that kind of work? I agree that the food today is becoming a cesspool of genetic mutations and chemicals and terminator seeds etc. but maybe the smart ones will be the ones who learn how to grow their own and feed themselves. I once read that if you can control the food you control the people and maybe that is what it is coming to?

The oceanographic survey conducted from 2015 to 2019 indicates that the Soylent Corporation wanted to legitimately introduce a new product made from plankton, but discovered that they couldn't because the plankton was dying. So they decided to use the one resource they had a plentiful supply of.

In the TV broadcast at the beginning of the film, the announcer says that Soylent Green is new. That, and the fact that they didn't kill Simonson earlier, leads me to believe that only Soylent Green was made from people and that it had only recently come on the market.
About overpopulation in our modern real world: China and India are booming, even though China has the one-child policy. India does not seem to follow this "recommendation", so it'll probably surpass China in a very short time. In countries such as Japan, the growth has somewhat leveled out and will most likely start declining shortly. Europe I don't know, but we have a big influx of population from the Middle East, where propagation rate is higher than here. Millions of acres of farmland in places as diverse as Florida to Brazil are being paved over for development. According to a new study on the effects of global warming, by 2080 hundreds of millions of people could face starvation, and water shortages could threaten 1.1 billion to 3.2 billion people.
Photos from the film:
[link to www.geocities.com]
What Charlton Heston himself seriously had to say about the topic:
[link to worldoflongmire.com]

At the end of the movie we saw Edward G. Robinson....

('Sol' character and Heston's co-actor as a Jew/Egyptian man in The Ten Commandments)

..... "going home" and watching in the screen what the planet looked like when he was young. We hear Beethoven's 6th Symphony touching us better than watching unicorns in 'Fantasia' Walt Disney's film. Heston says: "My God, I didn't know what you meant". That's exactly what your offspring will witness in the years to come.... unless, of course, we destroy the planet even before achieving that level.

When the govt let it slip that WTC ashes containing human remains were used to pave highways, I thought "Soylent Green is I-95!"

Well, substances used to build highways are indeed in YOUR CIGARRETS!

The people of our nation don't see no obligation
To fix the situation of the elder generation
They're stuffing up the nursing homes to overflowing
Yeah, but the problem keeps growing
People getting jacked for their Social Security checks
I detect that they don't get no respect
So what you gonna do, a dilemma for the whole crew
Open up your ears; I got an answer for you (what's that)
Open up your ears; I got an answer for you (what you say?)
Open up your ears; I got an answer for you

We gotta eat all the old people
Show em that you love em
We gotta eat all the old people
Shove em in the oven
We gotta eat all the old people
Stick em in the freezer
We gotta eat all the old people
We're gonna garnish up a geezer

We're gonna hack em, whack, de-bone and stack em
Two by two on the bar-b-q rack em
We're talking Steve McQueen with the Soylent Green
We grinding up the grannies in the granny-grind machine
The venerable edibles, the ancient incredible
Burger, one bite and you know it's not regrettable
The aged, the antiquated, dilapidated
Gonna get processed and then marinated
And now we go around, we're cleaning up the town
We frying up the Golden Girls to a golden brown

We gotta eat all the old people
Show em that you love em
We gotta eat all the old people
Shove em in the oven
We gotta eat all the old people
Eat em skin and all
We gotta eat all the old people
We're gonna marinate with Geritol

We're talking O-L-D, P-E-O-P-L-E
It's always the first that's the worst
Until they become a tasty treat
We're talking E-A-T, all the O-L-D
We're talking E-A-T, all the O-L-D

Here we go
We gotta eat all the old people (c'mon)
We gotta eat all the old people (c'mon)
We gotta eat all the old people (c'mon)
We gotta eat all the old people (here we go)
We gotta eat all the old people (c'mon)
We gotta eat all the old people (c'mon)
We gotta eat all the old people (uh-huh)
We gotta eat all the old people (boyeeeeeee)

Now I think you know exactly how I feel
A sandwich is a sandwich but your grandpa is a meal