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I don't think it can get any cheaper than any practical cheap-food alternatives. It's using basically the same things as source material, often with much more p
by stormbrew 12y ago
I don't think it can get any cheaper than any practical cheap-food alternatives. It's using basically the same things as source material, often with much more processing done to them to get them into this powdered form. Less work (economically) goes into making Kraft Dinner than Soylent could ever hope to get to, I would think.
Never mind stuff like soy and rice, which are probably (well, obviously in soy's case) the basic inputs that end up in soylent, and already have massive economies of scale working in their favour.
- gfodor 12y agoI have to imagine that Soylent's long term vision is to control the entire supply chain.
- ceejayoz 12y agoSorry, what? You think Soylent wants to buy a bunch of farms?
- gfodor 12y agoProbably, in the long run.
- tragicAndCruel 12y agoVertical integration means owning the farms, production facilities, shipping and distribution, retail fronts, and maybe even operating some form of fast food franchise. The only thing that could possibly make soylent faster than fast would be drive-thru. If I could order a 24 oz. soylent for $1, instead of a strawberry shake, I could envision a future where I might actually eat soylent more than once a week and across a cumulative duration of longer than 4 weeks per any given year.