by JohnDenver » Thu 15 Oct 2009, 10:41:04
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('highlander', 'i')s it "pitchforks and torches" time?
No. Not until people are literally out on the streets and hungry. But I think the Masters will be smarter this time. We (well, not me but everybody else

) will be warehoused in abandoned shopping mall barracks and fed their "three square"--porridge at breakfast, mush for lunch, and a big hearty helping of gruel (with plenty of Textured Vegetable Protein, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils, and High Fructose Corn Syrup) for dinner!
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One calculation suggests that the protein requirements of 1 billion people could be satisfied by a vat protein facility covering only 4 square kilometers of land. (Source: How Many People Can the Earth Support?, Joel E. Cohen, P. 327)