Most people aren’t replacing food they would have made, they are replacing what now is an expensive and unhealthy garbage convenience. When you can just crack open a bottle (and perhaps drop some flavoring in it) and suck down 400 Kcal of balanced nutrition for less than $3.00 that isn’t loaded with salt and sugar, It…

Chuck Klosterman had a great line in this in Visible Man, about how privileged people love to cook, because it makes them feel earthy and competent while getting paid six figures to forward e-mails around all day, but blue collar, working class people hate it, because it’s one more thing they have to do when they get…

If you click through to her nutritionists who apparently don’t like it, even their criticism was pretty weak. They agreed that you could live on it, and probably for a long while. Their main concern was of all the chemical compounds in fresh food that we don’t yet know about that aren’t in soylent. What would not…

You can substitute the word ‘cooking’ with just about any other activity people do/use. For example: farming, furniture making, driving, walking, working on a car, sewing. Some people do these things for fun, others don’t and they choose to avoid it, much like eating soylent.

“Soylent 1.4 was developed under the close guidance of our nutritional advisor, Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, M.D., MPH. Pi-Sunyer is professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. At St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center he serves as chief of endocrinology, diabetes, and…

You’ve got to be kidding. Here’s the relevant passage from that article you’re using as proof that Soylent (a stupid product for people with money to burn) is somehow harmful or negative:

Laziness. I hate cooking and simply don't want to do it, but I need food to live. So why not replace some of my meals with this? Im not going to make the good decision when the chips are down, I'll be busy ordering a pizza

in all fairness, those reactions were 2 years ago and from what i undertsand the formula has been changed somewhat since then. perhaps hearing what they have to say based on the newer formula would be good (but maybe it makes no difference).

I think people miss the point of Soylent. Yes, he comes across as a wing nut, but wouldn’t everyone like to spend less time and money on shopping, preparing, cooking and cleaning? I doubt Soylent will ever replace meals for the masses (though for some it already has), but certainly it could replace our shitty frozen…