Editing Soylent Green (section)

== See also ==
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* [[Cannibalism in popular culture]]
* [[Soylent (meal replacement)]], a brand of meal replacement products whose creator was inspired by the book and film
* ''[[The Wanting Seed]]'' (1962) by [[Anthony Burgess]], in which overpopulation leads to cannibalism.
* ''[[Logan's Run]]'', a 1976 dystopian movie where the population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by killing everyone who reaches the age of 30. Those who try to escape are captured, and frozen for food.
* [[Judge Dredd]] – in Mega-City One, the deceased are recycled into food after they have had the funeral.
* ''[[Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee]]'' – a 1997 dystopian science fiction video game where the protagonist, Abe, a slave at a meat processing plant, discovers that his employers plan to use the slaves as ingredients for a new product during an economic downturn. The sequel, ''[[Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus|Abe's Exoddus]]'', reveals that the addictive alcoholic drink, Soulstorm Brew, is made from bones taken from an ancient holy graveyard. Series creator Lorne Lanning described the franchise as a blend of "Soylent Green" and "The Muppets".<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7f0YtzWBG4 |title=How Mind Control Saved Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee {{!}} War Stories {{!}} Ars Technica |date=2019-12-03 |last=Ars Technica |access-date=2024-06-16 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
* ''[[Cloud Atlas (film)|Cloud Atlas]]'', a 2012 film based on [[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]]'s 2004 novel [[Cloud Atlas (novel)|''Cloud Atlas'']], both depicting a future society in which workers are fed with human remains
* ''[[Tender Is the Flesh]]'', a 2020 dystopian novel by Agustina Bazterrica in which humans are farmed for their meat