What is the most stable food production method?
Crops can blight, animals can get diseases. I don't know much about hydroponics but I know that bacteria are a concern. What food source is the most reliable, the least likely to produce less food than expected?
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Diversity of food sources.
This is the right response, along with proper crop rotation. No magic single correct answer here will work.
Not to be contrary, but... Soylent Green would fit the bill.
I know youโre not really being serious, but it doesnโt really. I considered the logistics of this for an RP I was running and it doesnโt add up. You need way way way way more food to grow a human being than the human being provides in food when theyโre dead. At most, being very very generous, you could meet 1% of a societyโs food needs with cannibalism. And thatโs a really high estimate. Itโs really more of a special treat than a daily diet!
Conservation of energy, basically. A self-eating population is a perpetual motion machine.
thats assuming you want to maintain the population size.
Itโs so inefficient you may as well just leave the population to starve, nearly the same effect for much less work!
You're going to have people anyway, and they're going to die. We just need a process to make their deaths a d resulting disposal as productive as possible. We could set an optimum age limit; maybe gameify the process, and package it with respect and nobility. We could give it a pleasant name - something like "Carousel" maybe.
We're looking for balance, not a Buddhist sort of minimal impact.
Come on now Aldous, put your glasses on mate.
They're making our food out of people, next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle! for food!
But what happens when covid kills 75% of your long pig stock? Thousands will starve, millions will die!
/unexpected futurama
Pretty sure that's actually just a reference to the film Soylent Green...
Whatโs funny about Soylent green is that there are a few genuinely standout scenes and insightful existential conversations, but the only line ever referenced is โSoylent green is people.โ The ads were apparently more culturally relevant than the movie.
Thatโs why it is unexpected.