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It's just _food_, it's not like any other food product in modern history was ever extensively tested before it was put in the market as a part of our daily diet
by tinco 13y ago
It's just _food_, it's not like any other food product in modern history was ever extensively tested before it was put in the market as a part of our daily diet.
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- ars 13y ago> No it not! It's pure chemicals mixed together. Um, so is food. All food. Do you have any idea how many chemical reactions happen when you make and cook food? Have you studied each and every chemical reaction? PS. I'm not trying to say this is a good idea. But complaining it's bad because it's "chemicals" is ridiculous. Read this thread - there are plenty of well reasoned arguments against it.
- bfioca 13y agoSo is baby formula not food?
- nsxwolf 13y agoBaby formula has rigorous research behind it.
- shurcooL 13y agoAnd Soylent or whatever it evolves into (or alternatives it inspires) will have research and evidence behind it once it goes big. You gotta start somewhere.
- ceejayoz 13y agoWill it? Plenty of pseudoscientific snake oil products get sold for decades without research and evidence behind it. Colon cleanses, homeopathy, etc.
- shurcooL 13y agoLook how much scrutiny Soylent is receiving already. It has the potential to fully or nearly fully replace food. This won't go unnoticed and untested for long. What the heck are snake oils? I've never heard of that.
- ceejayoz 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
- protomyth 13y agoBecause that is one of the products that if screwed up will end your company or you if you do it in China.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoDo Hot Pockets? Corn Dogs? Wait wait, I know. Twinkies!
- papsosouid 13y agoSo does soylent. You realize people already live entirely off of similar products right? You do understand feeding tubes are a thing right? What do you think goes into them? http://www.nestlenutritionstore.com/departments/therapeutic-nutrition/general-tube-feeding-nutrition/general-tube-feeding-nutrition?catpath=therapeutic.1.4 http://www.nestlenutritionstore.com/departments/therapeutic-...
- ceejayoz 13y agoBaby formula is actually a great example of hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D being unable to duplicate the health benefits of the real thing (in this case, breast milk).
- sillysaurus 13y agoIt's pure chemicals What is food if not chemicals?
- eru 13y agoImpure chemicals.
- jotux 13y ago>It's pure chemicals mixed together! Your use of the word "chemicals" is naive and on par with those silly chain emails that go around every few years warning of dihydrogen monoxide.
- tinco 13y agoSince when do people consult Food Scientists before putting food on the market? Food Scientists are people who research food that is already on the market.. (or in the best case research food that is about to be put in the market by a high profile food processor with money to spare, but in that case they don't have your best interest in mind, just that you don't die immediately)
- oftenwrong 13y agoSoylent was not created to be a part of our daily diet; it was created to replace our daily diet.
- rosser 13y agoIt's not just _food_. It's a bunch of the stuff that this random programmer thought was important, out of the set of things we know of that we get from food, tossed into a blender. It's none of the things that we get from food that we haven't identified as important, or that this dude didn't think were sufficiently important to include, or anything else along those lines. He's repeatedly had to adjust his formula to account for deficiencies he's discovered in his glop along the way. Do you honestly think he's done ironing [1] out the kinks in his forumla? [1] Deliberate phrasing: one of the things he missed was iron. Can you even begin to trust the nutritional knowledge of someone who missed something as basic as iron?
- base698 13y agoReal food has the advantage of millions of years of natural selection and relationships to our genome we have only begun to understand.