Soylent Beige?

[Godot51]

http://www.vice.com/read/rob-rhinehart-no-longer-requires-food

You know what's a complete waste of time, money, and effort? Eating. I mean, wouldn't you rather just ingest a tasteless form of sustenance for the rest of your life and never have to go through that tedious rigmarole of opening and eating a premade sandwich or feasting on a pile of fried delicacies ever again? Rob Rhinehart—a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta and, presumably, an impossibly busy man—thinks so.

Rob found himself resenting the inordinate amount time it takes to fry an egg in the morning and decided something had to be done. Simplifying food as "nutrients required by the body to function" (which sounds totally bulimic, I know, but I promise it's not), Rob has come up with an odorless beige cocktail that he's named Soylent.

I wasn't sure if he was trolling at first because that's the name of a wafer made out of human flesh and fed to the masses in the seminal 1973 sci-fi film Soylent Green, but then I read the extensive post on Rob's blog about how he came to make the stuff, and I started to believe he was serious. Soylent contains all the nutritive components of a balanced diet but just a third of the calories and none of the toxins or cancer-causing stuff you'd usually find in your lunch of processed foods. Despite the fact that it looks a bit like vomit, Soylent supposedly has the potential to change the entire world's relationship with food, so I spoke to Rob to find out how.

[chalky]

1. Needs more fiber.

n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. That's really cool

My roommate is going through interferon therapy right now and is sick as a dog. It's hard for her to eat when she feels so lousy, but her doctor said she's losing weight too fast. I'm trying to figure out how to get some nutrition in her that her body will absorb easily.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. No thank you...

I enjoy eating and tasting a variety of flavors. I will keep the "hassle" of cooking in my life- it has its rewards.

[LiberalEsto]

4. sounds dismal to me

I would miss so many foods if I had to live on that stuff.

[yurbud]

5. food is also a major social activity and one of the few excuses we still have to talk face to face

[woo me with science]

6. +1

[woo me with science]

7. Monsanto People Chow.

Look for a version of this to be served in private prisons as soon as it is financially advantageous to do so.