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Solyent Green

By jfarrell

(love them old scifi classics - don’t you)

In a way it’s inevitable;

Every culture has it’s own tastes, own customs,

Of what is and is not acceptable to eat,

For a multitude of reasons.

For Britain, horse being passed off as a cow was a major scandal;

Though I doubt few noticed until it got front page in the red tops.

And despite those headlines, we queued in our droves

To buy our horseburger with cheese please.

And we had been buying our horseburger for some years

Before it became front-page news;

They ‘sneaked it in, with no-one noticing.’

For years.

With our population growth,

We have two major problems (worldwide - not just Britain, hehe)

We need to produce more food;

And we need to build over where we grow food and let animals feed.

I’m sure, if they could get away with it

“Roll up, special offer this week, free batman with every solyent green!”

Sadly, I begin to realise…

To save everyone, you may have to make a deal with the McDevil.

First time I’ve really empathised with a politician.

Like rain from the sky, the outbreak fell down on an ignorant populace,
controlled by the media, and popular culture;
taught to laugh at the possible, and told nothing is real.
When the outbreak came, the world was caught off guard;
No one was prepared for the real thing.