Get MumboJumbo on the case, he'll fix everything.
I was re-watching Pluribus last night with my friends and we reached the episode where John Cena explains cannibalism with all the skills of marketing students. When Mr Diabate mentioned robotic farming all I could think about was Minecraft Redstone farms.
Think about it. These farms, though not based in real life, are made to maintain maximum efficiency at large scales and remain entirely automated. That way the plurb'd don't have to lay a finger on the machine; if needed, they can ask a survivor to press any buttons. All they need to do is get an engineer to convert the game logic of these farms to what works in real life. I'm sure there's plenty of real farms that work just as brutally and efficiently (just don't tell peta). The ethics of this is entirely dubious but when you are facing world starvation within the next 10 years, things get deserate.
Steve's Lava Chicken will save the world.
Additionally, I just want to go on the record and say that I like the plurb to be a little bit stupid, because this really is a stupid situation. It could be so easy and say 'yay vegetarianism' but having them prioritise all forms of life is so much more interesting. My friend asked last night whether a plurb'd body was infected by a tapeworm, what would they do then? What the show suggests is that they would choose inaction as then they couldn't harm either person or worm, forcing the person to suffer. It adds a satirised level of pro-life belief that is fascinating for an alien race to have, especially if they are wanting to spread to other planets. Of course they have to love all living matter because who knows what counts as living in space? It would be weird if the plub virus was specifically designed for humankind.
Expect plurb posting in the future (probably more serious next time)
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