# Does it make any difference if the public finds out "Soylent Green is PEOPLE"?

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**Created:** [December 22, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-make-any-difference-if-the-public-finds-out-soylent-green-is-people/775395 "2016-12-22T19:00:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arizona\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Arizona\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arizona_Mike)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-make-any-difference-if-the-public-finds-out-soylent-green-is-people/775395/21 "2016-12-23T04:08:48Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> That scene plays like a paranoid conspiracy thriller. The scene implies there is a THEY that are doing this. That THEY are going to (as Thorn says) breed us like cattle. That THEY are evil, doing this TO us. And that doing this to us will benefit THEM…

That’s probably part of the reason the filmmakers wanted to add the cannibalism angle to the film. This was the era of the paranoid political conspiracy thriller, and adding this angle would have made the film more salable, with films like Three Days of the Condor, The Killer Elite, The Parallax View, The Coversation, et al.

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