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This is an absurd claim. We've had dry dog food for a long while now; we totally understand enough about nutrition to create complete diet replacements. Humans
by guizzy 13y ago
This is an absurd claim. We've had dry dog food for a long while now; we totally understand enough about nutrition to create complete diet replacements. Humans are more complex, but not orders of magnitude so.
The only reason there isn't any such product in the consumer market is because there's little incentive for it: too commoditized, lots of liability.
- jacques_chester 13y agoDogs are not highly intelligent omnivores with average lives of 60+ years.
- jacques_chester 13y agoHaving thought about it some more -- at one level you're right. Millions of dogs live off a handful of composite foodstuffs. However, when you have millions of test subjects, you quickly discover what's missing and people won't sue you for wrongful death. You also have the advantage that if a peculiar deficiency emerges in a small part of the population, a vet will probably remedy it -- or the dog will get sick and die and nobody will be the wiser. Finally, note that most dog foods are not really composed chemicals in the sense that Soylent proposes to be. They are usually processed food -- usually made of offcuts and mechanically recovered meat considered unsuitable for human consumption -- dried, ground, emulsified and then fortified with additives. It's not really food replacement. It's food.