A better comparison is the current use of corn. It has been made into virtually every food we eat from high fructose corn sugar to meat (the animals eat the corn) and the corn itself has been genetically modified so that the public is being fed unnatural food with great fanfare.

See the documentary "King Corn" and others.

At the time the movie Solyent Green was made, the Earth's resources were being raped and the human population was exploding. The main premise was that we had killed all life in the ocean and filled the land with people. Much of that has already happened. Over ninety percent of the ocean's food fish are gone and populations are still expanding. The world's fresh water supply is disappearing quickly which will greatly curtail irrigation (reference disappearing glaciers).

People will not eat people. They will just watch them starve.

Probably not knowingly.

In the movie, no one knew what they were eating.

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Dark thoughts

The expectation is that if such meat is ever made, scientists will opt for beef, pork, chicken or fish. However, science fiction has long toyed with the darker possibilities that cloned meat presents.
In Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's epic sci-fi satire "Transmetropolitan," supermarkets and fast food joints sell dolphin, manatee, whale, baby seal, monkey and reindeer, while the Long Pig franchise sells "cloned human meat at prices you like."

"In principle, we could harvest the meat progenitor cells from fresh human cadavers and grow meat from them," Post said. "Once taken out of its disease and animalistic, cannibalistic context — you are not killing fellow citizens for it, they are already dead — there is no reason why not."

Of course, there are many potential objections that people could have to growing beef, chicken or pork in the lab, much less more disturbing meats. Still, Post suggests that marketing could overcome such hurdles.

"If every package of naturally grown meat by law should have the text, 'Beware, animals have been killed for this product,' I can imagine a gradual cultural shift," Post said. "Of course, we still have a long way to go to make a product that is even remotely competitive with current products."

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34042394/ns/technology_and_science-
innovation/t/mad-science-growing-meat-without-animals/#.Uf7wMpI3uSo
Edited by Jeanniebean on Sun 08/04/13 05:23 PM


They could also use more "sexy labels" to boost sales of cadaver meat products, such as the ones George Carlin once joked about:
"New From Nabisco! New Cheese ****! New*****!"(women's breasts and genitals) With a little design inspiration and copy-writing, some potentially great ads for these coming new products could influence consumers to buy more; use your imagination and a famous name-brand for lab grown parts to eat...a entirely new market awaits for the Wall Street Ad firms! A new ,approved by Consumer groups everywhere, improved version of the old Soy-lent Green idea !