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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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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday October 14 2016, @02:38PM
Wouldn't be better if we could cure allergies? I find it interesting that our knee-jerk reaction to a harmful combination between a person and an object is to blame and complain about the object. Once heard a person who was allergic to cedar trees declare that she'd be happier if all the cedar trees within 100 miles were cut down.
It's like we subconsciously view our bodies as holy and untouchable, a finished product that can't be improved. All other things must change so we can stay the same. See this so often on TV, with people routinely walking away unscathed from wrecks, explosions, and other physical drama. Nuke the fridge. And when they do get hurt, they can keep functioning as if the hurt was nothing, rather like the black knight in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. Depends what the writers want to do, may make the hurt person totally incapacitated with only minutes to live so that the hero has to scramble desperately to save them. Saw an A-Team episode in which the bad guys' helicopter was shot down. You'd think falling from 100 plus feet would alone cause some serious hurt, broken bones at the least, probably fatalities, to say nothing of the additional danger from the burning wreckage of the helicopter, yet the next scene was the bad guys exiting their wrecked helicopter at a healthy run, suffering only from their suit coats having caught on fire, which problem was quickly solved. Well, the A-Team was roundly criticized for firing hundred of rounds each episode but somehow no one ever ends up dead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @03:40PM
> It's like we subconsciously view our bodies as holy and untouchable
No.
Picking and choosing your food is 100x easier than changing your body. People are just taking the most obvious and easiest path. Reading anything more into it is to misdiagnose the problem.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @04:00PM
You draw too much from observations of The A-Team. At that time, groups like the Religious Right and others were all over Hollywood to "do something" about all the blatant violence on TV. Think of the children! One way Hollywood dealt with it was to not let anyone be killed, but you still wanted all that action. Go look at stuff like the G.I. Joe cartoons as well. Massive explosions with flames filling up the screen, and then a whole bunch of guys running out of the flames: "GO JOE!"
By the way, by the late 80's and early 90's, attention switched to putting pressure on Hollywood to "do something" about sex because, you know, AIDS and stuff. Check out the movies from that time. The one that jumps first into my mind, because they made such a big deal out of it at the time [nytimes.com], was the Timothy Dalton Bond film.
By the way, my favorite standard from The A-Team is that every vehicle that chased them ended up flipping over. The open-top Jeeps were my favorite. Then they always made sure to show the guys crawling out of it.