Define Soylent Green Meaning

The title of a (great) sci-fi film starring Charlton "from my cold dead hands" Heston, made in 1973.

The name comes from a combination of 'soy' and 'lentils'.

The film was (loosely) based on an anti-contraception novel, called 'Make Room! Make Room!', by Harry Harrison.

It is, of course, famously made from people.

Apparently, it is people.

Soylent Green is People.

People.

It's people.

1. Food made from dead people.
2. A really bad and cliched SciFi movie.

Taken from a 70's film. Soylent Green is a supposedly soy and lentil based nutrition source which later turns out to be made out of harvested humans hence the quote "Soylent green is people".

Sometimes used to describe a big and nasty lie told by a large company or goverment.

Playing on the "harvesting humans" idea from the 1973 movie, the term "Soylent Green" has emerged as a derogatory term in today's political issues of embryonic stem cell research and frozen embryos.

Climactic phrase from the Charlton Heston film.
Usually shouted at random in a bar or restaurant, very melodramatically.