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Sorry for the strong language but bullshit. I am sure it has changed over the years but I still have vivid memories of the rodents that ran around the original
by infecto 10y ago
Sorry for the strong language but bullshit.
I am sure it has changed over the years but I still have vivid memories of the rodents that ran around the original warehouse they mixed soylent in. It was a joke. They had a bunch of randos mixing powders haphazardly and no sense of proper food prep/sanitation. It was scarier than some of the operations that supplement manufacturers run. I am sure its changed but it blows my mind that this is classified as an ambitious project.
Edit: Here is the video. https://youtu.be/t8NCigh54jg?t=5m50s https://youtu.be/t8NCigh54jg?t=5m50s
- aianus 10y agoNone of the bags made in that facility were sold to the public. I remember because I was an original crowdfunder eager to receive my first shipment. They did not ship until they were producing it at the regulated co-packing facility.
- wodenokoto 10y agoJust out of curiosity, what did they do with the mix from that warehouse?
- aianus 10y agoAs far as I know, they tested it on themselves and gave it to friends and reporters to hype it up.
- smt88 10y agoThat still sounds criminal to me.
- uw_rob 10y agoI'm not sure why you are getting downvoted. People shouldn't even be giving away food that was mixed in a facility that has rats running around.
- adrusi 10y agoDo you think that people with a rodent problem shouldn't invite others over for dinner? Do you think they shouldn't eat in their own home? Are your concerns actually about health or about the sanctity of food being corrupted by impurity?
- cthalupa 10y agoAbout 20 million homes each year get rodent infestations. Even more have rats in them, but not at the infestation level. This is not limited to people in poverty or low incomes, either. Commercial food prep facilities obviously should be held to higher standards, but this facility was basically the equivalent of doing it in their garage for test batch purposes, which I doubt you would bat an eyelash at. I don't care about the standards they had as a startup before they had a commercial product. I care about the standards they have at the facilities creating the product I would be purchasing.
- moyta 10y agoSo, in that Vice Motherboard piece, CEO Rob Rhinehart claims that Grocers don't scale to 7 billion, but he provides nothing to back up that claim or his other claim that engineered food is better than what a standard Grocer offers. Later, he goes on to claim that no one is lacking clean water around the 12:30 mark, seems like this CEO is just aimlessly spewing bullshit with no facts to back up what he claims.
- imtringued 10y agoWhat is going to happen next? Are they going to source their ingredients from farms where all those rodents can run around freely?