The timing is definitely off, but then it is in most future scenarios. The earth is better at healing itself than the Sci Fy writers thought it would be. If the MAGA crowd manages to take over the government, it will hasten our demise, since their main focus is today's profits and votes and screw tomorrow. We are headed for a major population culling, it's just a matter of how and when: Human caused by war or rebellion, or nature caused, drought, melting ice or giant earth movements (volcano or quakes). It could be a century down the road, or months away. With nature, there is little we can do. With human cause, chances are we may survive better. Just glow in the dark maybe, or slow deaths by radiation poisoning..

Cannibalism or starvation was the basic premise of the movie, it was state and corporate sanctioned cannibalism so the general population didn't even realize they were eating human remains because climate change had destroyed traditional agriculture and the aquaculture was failing as well.
I found the film to be potentially prophetic.

Of course in the movie, if memory serves me, those going to be processed were given a gentle hallucinatory send off. It was a long time ago, but the movie left a lasting impression.

@Barnie2years As a Sci-fi fan I found it a fun and amusing diversion. I was aware of the over population issue but damnit ya gotta laugh sometimes - especially about dying. IMHO

Would you eat an animal that died of something other than the axe? I think we would all prefer to eat healthy meat.

@smoyle I guess I assume our inspection of meats cull out ones infected with harmful bad things...but have never assumed animals slaughtered were completely disease free. That ain't the way it works.

@HankSherman Very true, I still wouldn't (knowingly) eat anything that had enough issues to kill it.

@smoyle was really looking for any physical reasons why human flesh would be bad for consumption.

@HankSherman Well that I don't know. If we were still natural like cavemen I don't think there would be any issues with eating the "Long Pigs" as we're apparently referred to by cannibals. The amount of chemicals the modern human must have coursing through our veins might change things though. Then again, probably no more than the standard farm animal!

@smoyle not that I have any kind of hankering. More a brain fart curosity. I think brought on by fake meats, thoughts of apocalypse earth not supporting animal or plant life, ect.

@smoyle Most/many of the chemicals humans have in them comes from the ones purposely dumped into animals and from the animal unoff into our water supply.

@Beowulfsfriend not once do I re-call thinking about it especially while eating a steak, or burger. Always figured cooking took care of most that stuff.

@HankSherman Honestly, few of us do. Still, when I do think about it, I would prefer the chemicals gone.

@Beowulfsfriend and, at 80yo, not about to give it top priority now

It was a a movie where the dead secretly become the food for the masses while only the rich have real food. The rich are behind this and we are to believe we now have too many people.

I think I'd be OK with bugs if there was no alternative. I like to eat nice things though so it would only be for fuel.

@DenoPenno

It's really sad many buy into limiting and inflating food prices. Wail 80% of the entire planet plant life and since 2000 the plant life has grown 15%. It actually because of the carbon for the plants thrive from it. In the near future the green passports will charge carbon taxes to everything a person uses. Instead of harvesting the carbon to grow more plants and give more oxygen for everything. It the greatest scam since the light bulb theory of mass amounts of products, that are thrown away.

@Castlepaloma Earth's plant life is made up of C3 and C4 plants. I'm just remembering 8th grade science so I don't have the numbers. One of those is the most common - the ones humans don't digest, so we only get to pick from the other and some of those can't be eaten for other reasons. That's why cows have 4 stomachs and chew cud, so they can eat the plants that we can't.

You cannot make internally at least 2, maybe 3 essential amino acids easily found in real meat. you are woefully deficient in nutritional knowledge.

Same here as popular as it was, i never watched it. @phoenixone1 where can i get it.