What was the staple food 'Soylent Green', in the film of the same name, made from?
Soylent (meal replacement) full visibility and control over his nutrition, enabling him to fine-tune his intake of any nutrient at will. Soylent is named after a food in Harry Harrison's 1966 science fiction novel "Make Room! Make Room!" In the novel, most types of "soylent" are made from soya and lentils. The word also evokes the 1973 film adaptation "Soylent Green", in which the eponymous food is made from human remains. Rhinehart also says he chose the name, with its morbid associations, to pique curiosity and deeper investigation, since the name was clearly not chosen with a traditionally "flashy" marketing scheme in mind.
Soylent Green and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. The 20th century's industrialization led to overcrowding, pollution and global warming due to the greenhouse effect. In 2022, 40 million people live in New York City; housing is dilapidated; homeless people fill the streets; many are unemployed; those few with jobs are only barely scraping by and food and working technology are scarce with most of the population surviving on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation. Their latest product is Soylent Green, a green wafer advertised to contain "high-energy plankton" from the oceans of the world, more nutritious and palatable than