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Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation into Illnesses Continues

posted by martyb on Friday October 14 2016, @08:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the passing-problems dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 1) by helel on Friday October 14 2016, @12:42PM

    by helel (2949) on Friday October 14 2016, @12:42PM (#414254)

    Devils advocate here. If the soylent is a "perfect food" why does it matter if that's all you can digest? Vegetarians can lose gut microbes critical for meat digestion. As long as they stick to plants it doesn't matter.

    You can raise a child eating nothing but plants, nothing but processed food, nothing but animal products, or nothing that hasn't been approved by god. The courts accept most of these most of the time, if you can show that Soylent is healthy long term I see no reason why they wouldn't accept it as a diet to raise a child on.

  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Friday October 14 2016, @02:08PM

    by ledow (5567) on Friday October 14 2016, @02:08PM (#414282) Homepage

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-vegan-law-parents-force-diet-children-face-jail-a7180206.html [independent.co.uk]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @09:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @09:39PM (#414963)

      That law may or may not be a bad law. But was a result of actual cases of children being malnourished due to being fed a vegan diet by their parents.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday October 15 2016, @02:42PM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday October 15 2016, @02:42PM (#414595) Journal

    > Devils advocate here. If the soylent is a "perfect food" why does it matter if that's all you can digest?

    If windows has all kind of programs, why does it matter if that's all you can run?

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