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Soylent is (for) People!

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:18 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)





This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

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You know what's an irreversible waste of time, money and effort? Eating food you take pleasure in 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 pre-made sandwich or enjoying a huge hungover fry-up 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 odourless, beige cocktail that he calls Soylent.

I wasn't sure if he was trolling at first, because "soylent" is the name of a wafer made out of human flesh and fed to the overpopulated 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 started to believe him. Soylent contains all of the nutritive components of a balanced diet, but with just a third of the calories and none of the toxins or cancer-causing stuff you'd usually find waiting to kill you in your lunch. Despite the fact 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.



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

His blog describing the making of Soylent:

http://robrhinehart.com/


I enjoy cooking and eating, but sometimes I just want to get nutrients and get on with my day. This would be perfect for me probably three or four days a week. I would not cut out fresh fruits and vegetables in any circumstance, though, and I'd still like a bacon cheeseburger now and then.

But this could revolutionize food for the poor and the third world, although I worry that factories in the third world would start giving workers this chum just to keep them at their workstations longer...





"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."


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Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:40 AM

BYTEMITE


I eat too fast to taste anything anyway and all my senses are kind of deadened.

(Inevitable "tasteless" jokes)

So I usually just end up eat a serving of candy for each meal until I feel sick, then I eat a salad. Healthiest diet ever. At least I don't really really eat a whole lot.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 6:25 AM

MAL4PREZ


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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
So I usually just end up eat a serving of candy for each meal until I feel sick, then I eat a salad. Healthiest diet ever. At least I don't really really eat a whole lot.



LOL! I totally know what you mean!

I totally get the soylent guy too. My main issue with what I eat at home is the hassle of food prep. Frying an egg - way too much work for too little nutrient! I would go for some paste on the run, then save up my cash for occasional taste-bud excitement - at a restaurant where someone else does the work.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:04 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I tend to doubt those who say they've formulated a product which contains "all" of the nutrition that one needs. There are components in food we know nothing about that are benefical... It wasn't tunil ten years ago that people recognized the benefits of omega-3 oils. Just look at the number of compounds still being discovered every day.

And even when people "think" they got it right, they still make huge goofs... just look at the FDA's most recent version of nutrition advice



Looks great, right? Complete and well-balanced? Full of natural foods? Not prone to deficiencies? Until one nutritionist recently looked at it and asked

"Where's the choline?"

OOPS!!! It wouldn't be so bad, except choline is really necessary to make acetycholine, THE major neurotransmitter! Better add eggs and liver to that diet!


I could name about a dozen nutrients where "they" got it wrong. Add to the fact that everyone's nutrition requirements are a little different. Some ppl allergic to wheat; others need more iodine etc.

AND FINALLY.... eating the same thing every day will set you up for food allergies. You should make your day-to-day antigenically distinct, repeat foods every third day, at most.

So, not rushing out for soylent just yet.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:47 AM

BYTEMITE


I'm a neurotransmitter.

That sounded better in my head.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:06 AM

JONGSSTRAW


'Pop Tarts, Cheez Balls, and lots of french fries will keep a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.' Benjamin Franklim.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:44 AM

BYTEMITE


Fact: Benjamin Franklin invented the Theory of Butter Superiority - a 1770s diet plan that consisted of dunking everything in melted butter to overcome parasitic drain on nutrients from syphilis.

He was his own best costumer, and died of a combination of complications from a massive heart attack, gout, and obesity.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:31 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


I can see both sides of this coin. On one hand I LOVE eating!!!!! Its one of my favorite activities. So the idea of not eating is unappealing to me. But on the other hand, if I had to live alone this might actually be a good solution to my food dilemma which would crop up without cooks in the house. I could just eat these things and not worry about it. The food issue is one of the most potent reasons I hope never to have to live alone. Plus its lonely and there's no one to help you with things when you need it. Living alone just doesn't sound like my thing at all. The only upside is that I could decorate a larger space just how I liked it to be, but that's not as important as good food, companionship and feeling safe and knowing there's someone here if I need something.

My dad says he'd love this wafer idea though, he wishes he could just eat a little thing that would satisfy him like that, since he has a hard time being moderate about eating.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:43 PM

FIVVER


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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Fact: Benjamin Franklin invented the Theory of Butter Superiority - a 1770s diet plan that consisted of dunking everything in melted butter to overcome parasitic drain on nutrients from syphilis.

He was his own best costumer, and died of a combination of complications from a massive heart attack, gout, and obesity.



At the age of 84.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:02 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


84 ain't too shabby. Plus you know Ben loved the ladies, never lacked for girlfriends of various extractions, young, old, married, I guess he wasn't picky. :)

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Friday, March 15, 2013 4:43 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Tastes like Chicken!





Who am I to say this is wrong? My current daily diet of frozen pizza and/or spaghetti without meat and/or peanut butter sandwiches and/or microwave popcorn along side of my daily average intake of 1 pack of smokes and 6 beers has left me in near dire circumstances. At the same time, none of it was really that "great".....

I sure do miss my Mom's and my Grandma's cooking when I lived in their houses. Between that diet and 10 years of age, I felt 50 years younger back then.

That's my only argument against eating this soylent snot.....

Sure, nothing I could ever prepare would probably ever justify the lack of nutrients on top of the loads of bad things over this disgusting nutritional option. But... if you've ever tasted my Grandma's homemade lasagna, I don't reckon you'd ever find a case for replacing food with this crap that would hold any amount of water.

Sure, if you look at food consumption like I look at nicotene consumption, what's the difference, right?

But when you talk to true tobacco enthusiasts that purchase the high end pipe tobacco and smoke it once or twice a day through a pipe without inhaling, they look down at people like me as pheasants who are only looking to use tobacco as a means of a quick nicotine injection into the blood stream. I can't argue that fact either. I'd sure love to drink me some Three Floyd's or Sprecher's micro brew beer on a regular basis because they taste wonderful and give you a different "high", I'm on such a tight budget that I'd rather get my drunk on with foul tasting 30 packs of the poor-man's variety.

30 beers for 14 bucks, or 6 beers for 13 bucks?????

F-k... I hate being poor....




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Friday, March 15, 2013 5:50 AM

BYTEMITE


Supposedly humans taste like pork. But there are some differences. The blood is really the big flavour adder, plus the meat becomes nauseatingly greasy and smelly when you cook it. So, definitely eat humans raw.

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Friday, March 15, 2013 6:00 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Supposedly humans taste like pork. But there are some differences. The blood is really the big flavour adder, plus the meat becomes nauseatingly greasy and smelly when you cook it. So, definitely eat humans raw.



Hehe... Not that I've ever had the opportunity to indulge, but if the Jew's taught us anything (ask PN), it's that we shouldn't eat pork.

Taking that a step further, after I just laid out my daily/weekly diet in my last post, do you really think for a second that you'd want to find out what extra crispy bacon strips off of me tasted like, let alone how bad for you they might be?

For years I kidded myself that the reason that I don't get bit by mosquitoes was because of good karma because I let spiders out of my house/work instead of killing them like everyone else. I'm sure the real reason is that they land on my skin thinking I'm food, they sniff around a bit, and then they realize that the blood inside me is just as dead as my soul.




Man I hate looking for a job. I miss the days when I was high 24/7 outside of work and made a good living and was still fun at parties.... :(


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Friday, March 15, 2013 11:46 AM

BYTEMITE


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Man I hate looking for a job. I miss the days when I was high 24/7 outside of work and made a good living and was still fun at parties.... :(



I used to miss high school and how I never see any of my old friends anymore.

But then I realized that due to my psychiatric meds I was kind of a total obnoxious moron back in high school, and that I also don't really want to deal with my friend's kids and their husbands, so I guess I'm in an okay place after all.

I think as people grow older the partying and maintaining relationships you've outgrown becomes less important. And work NEVER becomes important. So you have to find something else that IS important to you to fill the gap.

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Friday, March 15, 2013 1:16 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


I don't miss high school. The only thing I miss from that time in my life is seeing my Jennifer every day. And a part of me misses choir, but that was a long time ago and that part of my life is long done. I also miss Rachie and what we had, but she lived across the road so had nothing to do with high school. I don't miss anyone else from high school. I had friends but we don't run in the same circles anymore so we'd have nothing in common today. And crap, going to school everyday? No thanks, I served my time already.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Friday, March 15, 2013 1:56 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


For years I kidded myself that the reason that I don't get bit by mosquitoes was because of good karma because I let spiders out of my house/work instead of killing them like everyone else. I'm sure the real reason is that they land on my skin thinking I'm food, they sniff around a bit, and then they realize that the blood inside me is just as dead as my soul.




I don't get bit by mosquitoes either. I joke that it's because my blood is far too toxic, but that might not be far from the truth. 2, 4, 5T stays in the blood for life, it seems, and bonds to DNA.



"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Friday, March 15, 2013 2:52 PM

MAL4PREZ


Mosquitoes love me, especially my feet and ankles. Bastards.

I am soooo glad to be decades away from high school! Skipped my 20 year reunion. Will go to 25 because I heard from the few people I am contact with that the bitchy girls where still bitchy to people who don't deserve it. I've made a pact to be there next time to defend and protect. Looking forward to nailing the small-minded small-town girls who never grew up and still judge everyone based on weight. Weeeee!

Bytemite - I am liking your new approach. Your posts are killing me! (That is not an offer to take a bite, even if I am redolent of onions and garlic...)

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Friday, March 15, 2013 2:52 PM

BYTEMITE


So, I'd taste like... human?

What a RIP off.

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 6:33 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Actually I am a big fan of the "people kibble" concept, in that it'd be a tremendous boon to the desperately poor - no need for stove, fridge and related expenses of operation, and you could subvert the usual problems with trying to feed the hungry in third world states by dishing out so much of it the bastards nominally "in charge" couldn't possibly carry it all off.

You know who else was a big fan ?
Momofuku Ando - the guy who invented instant ramen, which is dirt cheap, requires no particular skill to cook, bulks/weighs light, all you need is hot water.
Personally I've deified him after the fact, placing him within the pantheon of harvest gods.

-F

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Monday, March 18, 2013 9:28 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by Kwicko:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


For years I kidded myself that the reason that I don't get bit by mosquitoes was because of good karma because I let spiders out of my house/work instead of killing them like everyone else. I'm sure the real reason is that they land on my skin thinking I'm food, they sniff around a bit, and then they realize that the blood inside me is just as dead as my soul.




I don't get bit by mosquitoes either. I joke that it's because my blood is far too toxic, but that might not be far from the truth. 2, 4, 5T stays in the blood for life, it seems, and bonds to DNA.



"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."



If I was able to help you in any way, good for you Kwick..... :)


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