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I see the desire for whole foods as simple gastronomic conservatism: for better or worse, our species has done very well on foods like fish and leafy greens for
by lukifer 13y ago
I see the desire for whole foods as simple gastronomic conservatism: for better or worse, our species has done very well on foods like fish and leafy greens for millions of years. Given the clear consequences of poor diet, I make the choice to play it safe. Doesn't mean there needs to be any antagonism towards those who make a different choice.
I applaud the Soylent creator for experimenting with his body and his life. I just hope that those who take this lifestyle leap, or any other, don't become too certain of their choice, because it turns out that biology is really, really hard.
- jonnathanson 13y agoAgreed. Until I'm more confident that we've successfully learned all we need to learn, and reverse-engineered all we need to reverse-engineer -- and figured out which corners we can cut, and which we can't -- I'll take the whole foods wager when/if I can afford to. All of that said, I am not a Vitalist. I am pretty sure biology is reducible, and that it can be reverse-engineered -- eventually. I just don't think we're sufficiently there yet. In the meantime, I begrudge no one their choices, either way. And I applaud the Soylent team for its efforts. We should be doing more to reverse-engineer nature, so that we can get better at it. The best way to solve the problem is to keep trying and learning.
- dsizzle 13y agoA main point of the article argued against there being a meaningful distinction between whole and "non-whole" foods, but you've assumed there is. A main component of Soylent is rice protein -- do you think using just the rice protein is less "conservative" than putting whole rice in the mixture?