Spoiler alert, in case you haven't seen the 1973 movie Soylent Green {wiki}. Soylent Green is made of people. However, you have to remember that the world in the movie is horribly overcrowded and underfed. After all, it is set in 2022!
First, a quick recap: In the movie, the earth is overpopulated and over-polluted. Global warming is in full swing and even rich people have to eat crummy food. The government hands out rations of Soylent products, which are awful, flavorless cubes and loafs of “soy” (actually plankton but really it’s irrelevant cause it’s people) foodstuff that look like red, blue, or green Play-Doh. When you die, you go to a death-a-torium of sorts where you pay a small fee, then watch a really pretty movie filled with scenes from nature and peaceful music. You die quickly and painlessly from a colorless, odorless gas.
Then your body is shipped off and turned into Soylent Green which everyone loves to eat.
Would you eat Soylent Green under those conditions? How about in other science fiction scenarios? Several are spelled out at Science Not Fiction, where you are asked to leave your thoughts. Link
We eat to live.
People don't go to the deathatorium when they die, its more like, at age 60, they HAVE to go to the deathatorium, but at least it's a pleasant experince;
From there they are trucked to the factory to be secretly turned into soylent green. Charlton Heston uncovers this and tells everyone. i can't quite remember how people react, because to be honest, the movie sucked balls.
As for the deathatorium yeah there was an age limit akin to children of the corn. age should be lowered tho cause old people are probably wirey.
@nihil cannibalism may be bad but were talking processed people.. totally different LOL
Soylent green now with more Kids!
As for the question... Sure, but I would need a lot of ketchup!!! Heck, who knows what you will do if you are starving. The guy in "127 Hours" cut his own arm off to survive. Eating Soylent Green sounds a lot better than having to do that.
And if everyone else was doing it, you probably wouldn't even find it yeuchy. It's a monkey society.