Anthony Bourdain Doesn't Love Those "Bleeding" Vegan Burgers — Pop Culture

In 1973, the late Charlton Heston starred in Soylent Green, a sci-fi flick that had to seem like either an impossible premonition or a cautionary tale about what New York City would look like in the year 2022. That future version of Manhattan has a starving, frenzied population of well over 40 million people, and the world itself is struggling due to depleted natural resources and what we'd recognize as climate change. Most people have nothing to eat except green wafers distributed by the Soylent Corporation, life-sustaining rations that it swears are made from "high energy plankton."

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