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SOYLENT GREEN
WHAT DOES SOYLENT GREEN MEAN?
Soylent Green is both the name of a 1973 science fiction film and of a
wafer-like food product in the film. The film is a police procedural set in the
future, based on the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! The food is a processed
protein ration made of human beings and distributed to an unsuspecting populace.
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WHERE DOES SOYLENT GREEN COME FROM?
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Although the film is based on the novel, many changes turned them into very
different stories. Make Room! Make Room! primarily explores overpopulation,
leaving out cannibalism. Both are dystopian tales of a world with too many
people and not enough resources, where real food is scarce and meal replacements
are the only nutritional option for most people. But only in the film is the
famously human-flesh-based titular product introduced. It takes the form of a
green cracker that’s supposed to be more nutritious than other Soylent products,
Soylent Red and Yellow. The name of the product itself is a portmanteau of soy
and lentil, which is what it’s made of in the book.
Soylent Green is introduced as being made of plankton, but as the film unfolds,
the main character discovers that it’s manufactured from dead bodies. The climax
of the film contains the line “Soylent Green is people!” and this scene is one
of the most famous in the movie.
EXAMPLES OF SOYLENT GREEN
“My real question is where are all the elderly at the zoo? Are they in a
separate habitat or is that fruit actually soylent green?”
thenerdbeast Tumblr (March 26, 2017)
“Can we please send Boomers to the soylent green factory already? Like, you're
getting mad at folks for eating food & supporting businesses.”
R. Thomas @ShadowPraxis Twitter (March 26, 2017)
“Unlike Soylent Green, China's corned beef is not made out of people”
snopes.com Facebook (May 10, 2016)
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WHO USES SOYLENT GREEN?
The phrase “Soylent Green is people!” has become a meme and a snowclone in the
form of X is Y. In this meme, one or both elements of this phrase can be
replaced, and it is sometimes paired with a photograph of Charles Heston, who
starred in the film.
The fictional food received a real-life reference when food-substitute company
Soylent was founded in 2013. The company produces shelf-stable, ready-to-consume
processed foods that provide nutrients in the form of bars, powders, and
liquids. The movie was also popular enough to get merchandise in the form of
green crackers patterned after the ones in the film, though these are unrelated
to the startup Soylent.
Invoking Soylent Green is also a way to summon the specter of dystopia. Used
this way, it’s shorthand for something that’s perceived as undermining of
liberty or otherwise unfair. Alternately, it can be used as a tongue-in-cheek
way to suggest that a meat product is, perhaps, not all it seems.
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