as long as homeless people don't start to dissapear, i'm okay with soylent. from the back of the box it looks like it's basically a bunch of vitamins held together in a water/rice and oat flour/oil slurry. doesn't sound particularly delicious, but it's also harmless. But then, where does one get all the nutrients? and the flours? I see this as a way to reduce feeding time for those who don't care what they're eating as long as it's fuel, but not as a way to reduce human farming inefficiencies (which could likely be money better spent).
... you know that's where Mad cow disease came from, right? there's a difference between organ donation and digestion, I think.
I know all about Kuru. I'm not talking about eating people. I'm talking about the theoretical use of human protein waste as feed stock for some kind of algae/fungus. Edit to include, I don't WANT this to happen, I could just very easily see how it would be possible. People can be made to accept a lot of things as necessary.
ah, well, that's a horse of a different colour. As long as we don't all develop motor diseases from eating it i see no problem with using corpses. In the movie, however, the government was pretty much just killing anyone it considered undesirable and making them into food.
Most foodchain inefficiencies are due to livestock production (70% iirc), grocery stores' cosmetic preferences, and household spoilage/waste (40 to 50% of everything sold) as detailed by the IMECHE global food report. All three of these would be nearly eliminated in the soylent farm-to-table process.