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I don't understand why I should trust a food product produced by a team[1] that has NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER with nutritional science. And someone please explai

I don't understand why I should trust a food product produced by a team[1] that has NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER with nutritional science. And someone please explain why a dietary supplement needs a CTO? [1] "The Team" section of this page https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body

revelation 13y ago
But they have a VP of customer success.
regis 13y ago
People eat things like Pop-Tarts, Skittles, Grape Soda and other "food products" like that without researching the team behind them. Does it really matter what the team members' positions are? I would trust a company like Soylent over General Mills until I have reason to believe otherwise. edit: By the way General Mills also has a CTO: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sue-simonett/5a/829/8a http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sue-simonett/5a/829/8a
- rosser 13y ago
  Because Pop-Tarts and Skittles aren't being sold as a food replacement. I don't know about you, but I'm going to hold someone making a "snack" to a much lower standard than someone selling a product marketed with, "Here, you can use this instead of eating."
  - regis 13y ago
    Yeah, that's sort of true... but I think people do see these snacks as real food. Pop-tarts are marketed as a breakfast food - this makes it seem as though you could eat pop-tarts in the morning before you start your day instead of a fruit salad or something more "time-tested"
- mtct 13y ago
  It is not expected that you live only with Pop-Tarts, Skittles or Grape Soda.
  - elnate 13y ago
    You might not expect that, but people people still try. I can only speak of my New Zealand education but I didn't learn what a macronutrient was until I was 21 and researched it myself.
    - mtct 13y ago
      Didn't your mother taught you that you have to eat your vegetables?
guard-of-terra 13y ago
You don't have if you don't want to. If they aren't closing any need you have.
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- geoka9 13y ago
  I, for one, not so much worried about him killing himself (that would be unfortunate, but that's his call), as him misleading people on the mass scale into harming themselves. It shouldn't be a consumer product, not that soon and not without any meaningful trials.
  - grecy 13y ago
    You mean like the meaningful trials on the amount of salt, sugar and fat now common-place in fast food, Or growth hormones in factory-farmed meat, or....?
    - geoka9 13y ago
      We already know that a diet based on veggies, fruit, etc. is good for us. And we do know that fast food is bad. What we don't know is if the diet based on cocktails made with drug store supplies is good for us in the long term. Since Soylent is designed to be a drop-in replacement for all our food intake, I have issue with it not having gone through trials before it's marketed as a mass product.
ihsw 13y ago
Most of the crap people eat nowadays is far worse. If you take a poll of the most consistently eaten food on a daily basis you'll get results that make you wonder how we even survive. The creator of Soylent even goes so far to say that it's not a dietary supplement but an alternative to the coffee/tea/soda that people drink on a regular basis.

revelation 13y ago

But they have a VP of customer success.

regis 13y ago

People eat things like Pop-Tarts, Skittles, Grape Soda and other "food products" like that without researching the team behind them. Does it really matter what the team members' positions are? I would trust a company like Soylent over General Mills until I have reason to believe otherwise. edit: By the way General Mills also has a CTO: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sue-simonett/5a/829/8a http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sue-simonett/5a/829/8a

rosser 13y ago
Because Pop-Tarts and Skittles aren't being sold as a food replacement. I don't know about you, but I'm going to hold someone making a "snack" to a much lower standard than someone selling a product marketed with, "Here, you can use this instead of eating."
- regis 13y ago
  Yeah, that's sort of true... but I think people do see these snacks as real food. Pop-tarts are marketed as a breakfast food - this makes it seem as though you could eat pop-tarts in the morning before you start your day instead of a fruit salad or something more "time-tested"
mtct 13y ago
It is not expected that you live only with Pop-Tarts, Skittles or Grape Soda.
- elnate 13y ago
  You might not expect that, but people people still try. I can only speak of my New Zealand education but I didn't learn what a macronutrient was until I was 21 and researched it myself.
  - mtct 13y ago
    Didn't your mother taught you that you have to eat your vegetables?

guard-of-terra 13y ago

You don't have if you don't want to. If they aren't closing any need you have.

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geoka9 13y ago
I, for one, not so much worried about him killing himself (that would be unfortunate, but that's his call), as him misleading people on the mass scale into harming themselves. It shouldn't be a consumer product, not that soon and not without any meaningful trials.
- grecy 13y ago
  You mean like the meaningful trials on the amount of salt, sugar and fat now common-place in fast food, Or growth hormones in factory-farmed meat, or....?
  - geoka9 13y ago
    We already know that a diet based on veggies, fruit, etc. is good for us. And we do know that fast food is bad. What we don't know is if the diet based on cocktails made with drug store supplies is good for us in the long term. Since Soylent is designed to be a drop-in replacement for all our food intake, I have issue with it not having gone through trials before it's marketed as a mass product.

ihsw 13y ago

Most of the crap people eat nowadays is far worse. If you take a poll of the most consistently eaten food on a daily basis you'll get results that make you wonder how we even survive. The creator of Soylent even goes so far to say that it's not a dietary supplement but an alternative to the coffee/tea/soda that people drink on a regular basis.