In horror director Eli Roth's new movie The Green Inferno, out tomorrow, a group of young activists travel to the Amazon to protest deforestation and find themselves in a place where human flesh is on the menu. It's a throwback to older films like Cannibal Holocaust and others in the cannibal horror subgenre, but how does Roth feel about the actual practice of people eating people? He's pretty pragmatic about it, actually.
"The truth is, a fatter person would have more flavor," Roth says in the video above, "but I wouldn't want that—I would want a lean piece of meat."
Roth also thinks cannibalism could address issues of hunger and the environment.
"Right now the food supply is disappearing so how are we going to feed everybody? The answer is cannibalism," Roth says. "All the starving people in the world could be fed by human meat, which would be probably a much greener way of recycling dead bodies than we currently have."
Sounds disruptive, Eli. Wait a minute ... didn't someone make that movie?
