Soylent Green will help us through the hard times

Here's Wikipedia's summary of the great Charlton Heston movie, "Soylent Green:"

Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a bleak future in which overpopulation, global warming, and the resulting severe damage to the environment have led to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers.

And what is Soylent Green made of? Check the video above.

Aaaaaand here's this morning's New York Times:

Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.

In Japan and South Korea, some manufacturers for the first time have begun buying genetically engineered corn for use in soft drinks, snacks and other foods. Until now, to avoid consumer backlash, the companies have paid extra to buy conventionally grown corn. But with prices having tripled in two years, it has become too expensive to be so finicky.

To be fair, there's no indication that genetically modified corn will turn your baby into a flesh-eating zombie. But this stuff does creep folks out, it's fair to say.

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