Crops can blight, animals can get diseases. I donโ€™t know much about hydroponics but I know that bacteria are a concern. What food source is the most reliable, the least likely to produce less food than expected?

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This is the right response, along with proper crop rotation. No magic single correct answer here will work.

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Not to be contrary, butโ€ฆ Soylent Green would fit the bill.

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/unexpected futurama

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Pretty sure thatโ€™s actually just a reference to the film Soylent Greenโ€ฆ

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I know youโ€™re not really being serious, but it doesnโ€™t really. I considered the logistics of this for an RP I was running and it doesnโ€™t add up. You need way way way way more food to grow a human being than the human being provides in food when theyโ€™re dead. At most, being very very generous, you could meet 1% of a societyโ€™s food needs with cannibalism. And thatโ€™s a really high estimate. Itโ€™s really more of a special treat than a daily diet!

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thats assuming you want to maintain the population size.

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Conservation of energy, basically. A self-eating population is a perpetual motion machine.

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Theyโ€™re making our food out of people, next thing theyโ€™ll be breeding us like cattle! for food!

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But what happens when covid kills 75% of your long pig stock? Thousands will starve, millions will die!

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