PLURIBUS’ Absurd Food Revelation Is The Latest Ominous Sign for Mankind

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This article contains significant spoilers for season one, episode six of Pluribus. If you’re familiar with the show’s collective consciousness concept, you’ll already be aware of the food-related surprises. However, if you haven’t watched all of Pluribus yet, proceed with caution!

The latest episode of Pluribus finally showed us what Carol found at the old food packaging plant. It turns out it involves cannibalism, but not in the way you’d expect – the people connected to the hive mind are consuming human flesh, with body parts prepared and wrapped like poultry. This was surprising, given how gentle and innocent the hive mind seemed. However, Carol was right, and this practice, referred to as “HDP” in the episode, is apparently essential for human survival. The show continues to highlight how incredibly naive and simple-minded those connected to the hive mind are, which is becoming increasingly unsettling as we learn more about the current state of humanity.

Carol’s surprising discovery wasn’t a surprise to anyone else. When she traveled to Las Vegas to tell fellow survivor Koumba Diabaté about the strange, wrapped meat she’d found, he already knew everything. The group mind had an explanation prepared, delivered by a pre-recorded video featuring a playful appearance from the real John Cena – now going by a different name – explaining the group’s unusual food situation.

The collective intelligence on Pluribus is fundamentally incapable of harming any living thing, including plants. This means they can’t farm or even pick fruit from trees – they only consume what falls naturally. They aren’t wasteful, and survive entirely on pre-existing food sources, processing much of it into a drink. Interestingly, this drink contains 8-12% human remains – a fact reflected in the title of Pluribus’ sixth episode, where HDP stands for “Human Derived Proteins.” Essentially, the hive mind is addressing its food shortage with a form of cannibalism, but only consuming the remains of those who die naturally on Pluribus.

The collective consciousness, or ‘hive mind,’ would rather avoid using human protein – essentially, cannibalism – to survive on the ship Pluribus, but they see no other option. A massive food shortage is threatening humanity, and the situation is even more dire than they’re letting Carol believe. Diabaté shared a grim prediction with her, one that even John Cena wouldn’t dare say: most of the world’s population will starve within the next ten years.

It’s understandable to not want to harm animals, but taking that to the extreme – refusing to harvest crops or even pick berries – is just illogical. The collective intelligence known as Pluribus believes it has a duty to save humanity from a disastrous future. It sees the virus that connected almost everyone – a virus that ended conflict, prejudice, and violence – as a necessary step towards securing our survival. However, that same virus has created food shortages. It’s baffling that this incredibly intelligent, yet utterly impractical, entity can’t even allow someone to pick an apple to prevent billions from starving in the next ten years.

It’s illogical to extend the idea of not harming any living thing to something like corn – it simply can’t be hurt! With over seven billion people on Earth, it’s clear this absolute approach doesn’t make sense. For humans on Pluribus, a diet based on gathering and consuming other life forms is unsustainable as resources dwindle. However, this behavior might be perfectly reasonable for the advanced, powerful being who originally sent the virus to Earth.

Almost everyone is happy with the current situation, except for a very small group – Carol and Manousos Oviedo from Paraguay. Remarkably, people seem to believe things are good, even though it’s left humanity defenseless. This was true even before we discovered that humanity is knowingly heading towards extinction by starvation within the next ten years – despite the fact that there’s enough food for everyone on the planet Pluribus!

As a film buff, I’ve been pondering this idea – something about the events on the Pluribus really messed with humanity. It’s like we’ve become one big, easily controlled, and frankly, dumbed-down group. People won’t even grab a coconut to survive if they’re starving, but strangely, they’re okay with… well, let’s just say darker impulses. It’s totally bizarre! It makes me think something out there didn’t intervene to help us, but to manipulate us. I keep wondering if it’s all a setup for an easy takeover, or if they’re just ensuring we wipe ourselves out before they even bother showing up.

Mikey Walsh writes for TopMob. He and Carol share similar interests. You can find him on Bluesky at @burgermike, and he’s often discussing rankings of the Targaryen kings.

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2025-12-05 18:33