I just watched this show Pluribus. In it a hive mind takes over earth except a few immune people. In one episode the main character discovers a warehouse full of frozen body parts starts freaking out and confronts the hive mind. They made a pretty convincing point, there 7 billion people in the world and every day millions of them die from accidents or natural causes, it would be wasteful not to use that abundant source of protein that is otherwise going to just rot.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
There’s a prompt for a horror scifi book. Just imagine what it takes to produce that meat, where do you get it from, who get to become food and all that. This opens some very dark and truly dystopian possibilities. If you thought cyberpunk was awful, that was just a warm up lap. We’re just getting started here.
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I haven’t actually watched the show, but I did see the John Cena commercial scene. I thought it was interesting.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Oh that’s just a logical clean way to do it. I was thinking about something far worse. You know, like modern chicken industry, but made out of nightmares.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There is an entire erotica sub genre about this. Don’t look up “dolcett.”
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Well of course… Rule 34. No exceptions.
neo2478@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The current meat industry is already dystopian as fuck, no need to imagine it.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Spice that up with human meat and you get next level scifi horror. Basically a hybrid abomination of ethnic cleansing + genocide + war crimes + capitalism + meat industry. Basically everything you hate about the modern world squeezed into a single package.