Besides that, food and the process of eating is not just physical and chemical, it is also psychological and social. Could you meet the bare-bones nutritional r

Besides that, food and the process of eating is not just physical and chemical, it is also psychological and social. Could you meet the bare-bones nutritional requirements of the homeless by replacing soup kitchens with soylent kitchens? Probably. And I'm sure you could even serve them with hot bowls of soylent. But handing someone an actual meal, with food prepared by someone who wants to help them, will, without a doubt, provide much more emotional and and therapeutic benefit than will handing them a pouch of powder and a spoon. The whole concept of soylent smells like a halfassed answer to a barely understood problem from a cut-rate engineer.