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Ars Technica reports, following online reports of customers becoming ill after eating Soylent's new snack bars, the company announced this afternoon [October 13] that it has decided to halt all sales and shipments of the bars as a precautionary measure. The company is urging customers to discard remaining bars and will begin e-mailing customers individually regarding refunds. In a blog announcing the decision, the company said it is still investigating the cause of bouts of illnesses of customers linked to the bars, including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
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Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation into Illnesses Continues
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The worst part of valor is indiscretion.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday October 14 2016, @12:04PM
I've seen the real thing on my office.
I assume you mean "ensure" and the other old people meal replacement supplements.
OK OK I understand that there's a billion dollar business of fattening extreme elderly people up with meal replacement drinks (that taste awful BTW). My grandma had to take those after heart surgery for awhile, I don't remember the details. Turned out OK in the end. So you got a new marketing campaign of selling meal replacement drinks to healthy (ish) young people. Fine.
But why try to reinvent the wheel and make people sick or kill them? Just buy "ensure" or the other competitors, slap a new label on, slap on a new hip marketing campaign, call it done. (is "hip" still "hip" to say? Well if not, you know what I mean)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @12:14PM
Ensure is loaded with sugar. It is not suitable for consumption by normal, healthy adults because the nutritional proportions are out of whack. A meal of soylent is much closer to being balanced both for macro nutrients of fat/carbs/protein and micro-nutrients like RDA levels of vitamins. It isn't better than a meal prepared from scratch out of fresh ingredients. But it is better than nearly the entire menu at mcdonalds/taco-bell/burger-king/etc and is unquestionably better than a bag of chips or snack-cakes from a vending machine. Its also better than simply skipping a meal.
Nobody is required to eat a 100% soylent diet, in fact hardly anyone does. But if you normally skip breakfast or buy crappy fast-food for lunch, soylent is a far better choice.