Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years
Earlier this week, a bombshell analysis by Consumer Reports found that popular meal replacement drinks — a long-time favorite of tech bros — contain more lead in a single serving than a healthy adult should eat in a day.
Among the worst offenders was Huel’s Black Edition powder, the low-carbohydrate alternative to Huel’s mainstay powder, which contained a stunning 6.3 micrograms of lead per serving, as well as more than double the safe daily serving of cadmium.
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The findings are ironic, to say the least, given that Silicon Valley’s worker bees have made Huel a staple of their work-life culture — a corporate ethos which sugarcoats an industry built on overwork and economic inequity. As tech writer Joan Westenberg put it in an excellent writeup on meal replacement products, the drinks represent the “hubris and pitfalls of tech culture’s impulse to reduce the irreducible.”
“The same naive confidence that code can optimize every aspect of our lives… it’s an attractive illusion that technology can neatly solve the messy realities of existing in a body, of being a biological creature instead of a computer,” said Westenberg.
https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-bros-huel-lead
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