Here's Soylent's New Product. It's Food.
Mr. [Rob] Rhinehart first pitched Soylent to the world with a post titled "How I Stopped Eating Food." Now his successor Mr. [Bryan] Crowley says that Soylent's customers — and everyone else — should definitely keep eating food.
Asked if new customers should consider living solely off Soylent, Mr. Crowley said, "We don't recommend it, no. Absolutely. 100 percent. We don't recommend, not because we don't think it's healthy or we don't think it's there. It's a very difficult thing to do and our research tells us that it happens for a very limited amount of time." (Mr. Rhinehart himself moved the company toward gentler "meal replacement" messaging before stepping down in December 2017, when he announced Mr. Crowley as his own replacement.)
Now Soylent has edged closer to something its customers might recognize as food.
There are other reasons to tell a less provocative story. In 2017, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency informed Soylent that its product didn't meet agency requirements for "meal replacement," which halted the company's expansion in that country. In 2016, the first attempt at solid Soylent — the Food Bar — was quickly pulled from circulation after customers reported vomiting and diarrhea.
The company is working hard to ensure its products are not merely safe to eat, but also tasty and enjoyable. "That's the big word that we talked a lot about," Mr. Crowley said. "Before it was all about function. Original Soylent was function, function, function. Now you hear words like enjoyment in our mission."
Stargate SG-1 s04e01.
Previously: Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation into Illnesses Continues
Soylent Meal Replacement Sales Blocked in Canada
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Soylent 2.0 is Coming: Food Replacement Premixed in Bottles
Spore Scare Stops Shipments of Soylent Superfood
Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @12:18AM (3 children)
Vegetable-based bacon substitute for Moslems who are confused about what they should or shouldn't eat. Tastes great, not made of pork... but will the imam approve or will you be beheaded for apostasy?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @01:00AM (2 children)
least you could do is login j-mo, how else will you build your special brand of racist twattle?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @01:41AM (1 child)
Muslim isn't a race, you conceptually challenged dipshit. It's a religious belief. Get your facts straight.
2+ points for being sheeple led by the bleating herd. Momma must be proud that you've developed such acute powers of discernment.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @02:22AM
That didn't take long to finish a b33r.
- "Muslim isn't a race!" = finish your drink
Also need to add
- Bacon, Muslims, and Christians who are going to be in trouble when they learn Yahweh was serious about no bacon, especially when these people support the fascist apartheid state of Israel even though Judaism also prohibits bacon! = finish your drink, open another, and chug it
Damn, 3 b33rs down already. Guess I shoudl have gtoten a 12 pkac insted