I'm glad such eccentric projects are pursued – they're how progress happens – but it's still the case that... (a) Both the 1973 Charlton Heston movie and mixed

I'm glad such eccentric projects are pursued – they're how progress happens – but it's still the case that... (a) Both the 1973 Charlton Heston movie and mixed, some-negative health connotations of the word 'soy' make the chosen name for the product problematic. (b) The argument for its safety – "We have been testing Soylent on ourselves for several months and the data shows it to have a positive nutritional benefit" – creates little confidence compared to thousands of years of alternate practice, and strong evidence the human system needs some variety/chaos for optimal health/resilience.