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Soylent: Could you survive solely on a lab-made liquid supplement?
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:25 pm
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“It’s just food. Relax,” the Soylent spokesperson reassured me as I prepared for one of the stranger challenges of my life: replacing my conventional food intake with a thick nutritional sludge for an entire month. The thing is, Soylent isn’t just food. The smoothie-like substance, which began life as a crowdfunding sensation last year before attracting heavyweight investors like Andreessen Horowitz, is basically powdered science — human nutrition reduced to its most basic essentials. Thousands of years of culinary knowledge have been tossed aside, all in the name of efficiency.
Soylent isn’t just a science experiment for Silicon Valley movers and shakers who don’t have time to eat: eking out maximum caloric bang for your buck with a nutritionally complete substance could eventually be a huge deal in impoverished areas of the world. But these are early days, and today, we’re talking about a journalist coming to grips with surviving solely on powdered food.
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Two liters of this drink ($8) will give you a complete day's essential nutrition to survive.
This post was edited on 7/17/14 at 1:27 pm
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Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:26 pm to hikingfan
You seen the protein blocks in the movie Snowpiercer?
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:27 pm to hikingfan
quote:
Soylent isn’t just a science experiment for Silicon Valley movers and shakers who don’t have time to eat
No time to eat? Yeah, okay.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:28 pm to lsunurse
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You seen the protein blocks in the movie Snowpiercer?
:puke:
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:34 pm to hikingfan
I like how throughout the entire blog he keeps mentioning all the social and culinary aspects of food that are lost with soylent. That food is much more to us than just sustenance.
Well, yeah, no shite. That's why I'm not interested.
Well, yeah, no shite. That's why I'm not interested.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:35 pm to hikingfan
Is Soylent people?
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:37 pm to saintsfan92612
The green is made of people. Not the purp.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:37 pm to hikingfan
The CEO guy is my employee's cousin.
If this product for whatever reason takes off, I would wager it will end up being used to beat hunger and stuff like that. Then sold to the military etc. I can't imagine many other super useful applications for this product, but just the idea of it seems on some level inevitable.
If this product for whatever reason takes off, I would wager it will end up being used to beat hunger and stuff like that. Then sold to the military etc. I can't imagine many other super useful applications for this product, but just the idea of it seems on some level inevitable.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:38 pm to saintsfan92612
I think soylent brown could solve a lot of our problems.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:38 pm to hikingfan
I'll pass.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:41 pm to hikingfan
So it's prettymuch a protein shake? Am I missing something?
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:46 pm to hikingfan
How is this any different from the various tube feeds that stroke victims with dysphagia receive via their peg tubes to survive?
Posted on 7/17/14 at 1:47 pm to hikingfan
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The name “Soylent” is a reference to the 1973 film Soylent Green, in which it’s revealed that a futuristic new food designed to feed an overcrowded Earth is made of people.
The biggest question I have is why would you name your product "Soylent" when the movie specifically says what it's made out of?
That's like naming your brand of hot dogs "Pig Assholes" instead of Oscar Meyer.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 2:06 pm to LesMiles BFF
It's got electrolytes
Posted on 7/17/14 at 2:20 pm to LesMiles BFF
There were several soylents. SOYLENT brown was made from grain and animal products. Actually a really good idea. That's what we could give to welfare people
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