[j13k]

Small but important correction: the actual quote is “Soylent Green _is_ people!”. Agree with your broader point about the Torment Nexus being a McGuffin, but we do actually know how Soylent Green is people in the film - it’s explicitly revealed that it’s made from processed corpses due to overpopulation.

[burnte]

Yep, that’s a typo, you’re completely right. But when I say how, I mean literally “what is the manufacturing process that turns dead humans into a food product people don’t know is former people?” If it’s protein bars or “synthetic tofu” or maybe what looks like blueberry muffins, it doesn’t matter to the story.