Soylent Green©

Soylent Green seems to me like an accurate description of a future that is overpopulated. Resources are very limited and are reserved for only the richest. The rest of the people are forced to eat from the soylent line of products. They're heavily processed foods that are very cheap to make.

It sort of seems like this movie, made in the 70's, is an accurate prediction of life now. Although there aren't 40 million people in New York City, there's only about 9 million people there now, there are still some other problems with corporate greed. Since there's a lot of people around, there needs to be a lot of food for them, companies that are able to exploit the cheap production of food and sell a lot. Now, companies make meat from cattle that are fed hormones and other foods that cows wouldn't normally eat. Only the people willing to spend a lot of money on meat are able to get true natural grass fed beef. Others are forced to resort to cheaper foods like McDonald's which isn't known for the quality of its food. Overpopulation is an issue that not very many people think about, but is a possibility for the coming years. The population doubles every 50 years, there were only 2.5 billion people in the world in 1950, now there are 7 billion of us. It's not an easy problem to solve, we can't kill people off and it's hard to enforce a limit on the amount of kids. With medical technology improving, only more people will be able to survive in the world. It's something that should be addressed before it gets out of hand.