Crops can blight, animals can get diseases. I don’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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Not to be contrary, but… Soylent Green would fit the bill.

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

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

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thats assuming you want to maintain the population size.

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It’s so inefficient you may as well just leave the population to starve, nearly the same effect for much less work!

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They’re making our food out of people, next thing they’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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/unexpected futurama

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Pretty sure that’s actually just a reference to the film Soylent Green…

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That’s why it is unexpected.

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What’s funny about Soylent green is that there are a few genuinely standout scenes and insightful existential conversations, but the only line ever referenced is β€œSoylent green is people.” The ads were apparently more culturally relevant than the movie.

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