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Some soylentils have an interest in the Soylent food product, which claims to be complete, scientifically-based nutrition. Now Farhad Manjoo at the New York Times has spent a week and a half living off of it, and found it disappointing:
I just spent more than a week experiencing Soylent, the most joyless new technology to hit the world since we first laid eyes on MS-DOS.
Read the rest at the NYT: The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable.
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You can move the world with an idea, but you have to think of it first.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Subsentient on Friday May 30 2014, @05:42PM
Yeah it contains fish, that's a deal breaker for me and other veggers who want to eliminate food altogether,
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30 2014, @06:18PM
There's no shortage of DIY recipes which are vegetarian or vegan. And the nutrition calculator / recipe interface makes it relatively easy to add the specifics of any new ingredient you might choose to use. Watch the video on the front page:
diy.soylent.me [soylent.me]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30 2014, @07:17PM
You can buy it without the fish + canola oil and add your own. Vegan compatibility was a goal. You can just use canola in its place and get vegan, algal-derived DHA & EPA supplements to round out the profile.
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30 2014, @07:25PM
Uh, what? If vegan compatibility was the goal, why and how is there dead animal in the product?
(Score: 1) by jmc23 on Saturday May 31 2014, @02:00AM
The fish oil is in a separate package.
For the unscientific minded people avoiding all animal fats, elasticity in the oils you use to build up your body is of great importance. Most vegetable oils are 'stiff'. Do your research if you've got some unscientific reason for avoiding eating animals.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday May 31 2014, @04:29AM
Most vegetable oils are 'stiff'.
I've never heard it put that way before! Good way to explain it to the layman, heh.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1) by jmc23 on Saturday May 31 2014, @01:55AM
I wonder if you would feel the same way if you spent more time raising and taking care of plants.
Life is life.