Remember When Air was Clean and Sex was Dirty

The 1973 Science Fiction thriller Soylent Green starring Charlie Heston is a must see among cult purists. Unintended to be an Orwellian prophesy of 2022, not far away incidentally.

As Americans are forced to accept contaminated foods in 2010, one begins to wonder where agriculture be in 2022.

We are being bombarded with salmonella eggs,
e-coli hamburger, spinach, peppers, tomatoes, and bottled water.

Even spring water is said to be contaminated in the water table from human impact.

Farm production is increasing the bushel per acre output. The farmers don't benefit from increased production as Supply and Demand lowers the unit prices. On the surface it appears the farm production numbers are good for the consumer until the FDA published new food values indicating the quantity may be increasing, the nutrients in the foods are declining.

We're eating more food to get the same nutrient of 50 years ago. Strawberries are enormous but, when you bite into them the flavor is not there. Could be the reason obesity is a problem in America. The very same farming technologies boosting output produces fertilizer runoff that kills fish and pollutes the water table.

We dine from frozen boxes cooked in micro wave technology. Eating comfort foods that taste good but not filling or high quality. Genetically engineered foods may look good on the grocer's shelf but fail to properly feed the nation. The genetically engineered seeds become the property of the mad men who now control the food supply. Many new engineered seed are designed to be sterile and not capable of reproduction. Non Germinating foods is a diabolical crime against humanity. The new seeds are feared to be a threat to the food supply because of the missing DNA diversity the guarantying humans against a total loss from diseases and blights.

Houses built in the fifties were built from high quality slow growth lumber. The knots found in 1970 2"x4"s were the size of a #2 pencil diameter. The US Forestry Service has developed new faster growing trees but the fast growing trees produce inferior lumber with knots as big as your fist. The result is a house, not as strong and prone to rot and insects. New technologies produce greater quantity and lesser quality is rampant in America. The increased quantity is to deal with a expanding population.

The question is: are we headed to Soylent Green in 2022?