Soylent green
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The title of a (great) sci-fi film starring Charlton from my cold dead hands Heston, made in 1973.
The name comes from a combination of [soy] and [lentils].
The film was (loosely) based on an anti-contraception novel, called Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison.
It is, of course, famously made from people. -
Apparently, it is people.
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Taken from a 70s film. Soylent Green is a supposedly soy and lentil based nutrition source which later turns out to be made out of harvested humans hence the quote Soylent green is people.
Sometimes used to describe a big and nasty lie told by a large company or goverment.
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Soylent Green is People.
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People.
Its people.
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Playing on the harvesting humans idea from the 1973 movie, the term Soylent Green has emerged as a derogatory term in todays political issues of embryonic stem cell research and frozen embryos.
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- Food made from dead people.
- A really bad and cliched SciFi movie.
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