Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by rgbrenner on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:23AM (#12813075)

He asserted this from the start???

Here's the Tilt crowdfunding page: https://wayback.archive.org/web/20141012152640/https://crowd...

Note, it's titled "Soylent Free Your Body". Here are some phrases in the short post:

  "What if you never had to worry about food again?"
  "Soylent frees you from the time and money spent
  shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent 
  health, and vastly reduces your environmental impact by 
  eliminating much of the waste and harm coming from 
  agriculture, livestock, and food-related trash."

Packages available:

  $255 One month supply of Soylent
  We'll ship enough soylent to fully replace one month's worth of meals

This is after he went on a 30 day experiment titled "How I Stopped Eating Food" http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by batbomb on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:48AM (#12817250)

Don't forget:

"Soylent™ was developed from a need for a simpler food source."

"No need to shop for individual ingredients or plan ahead" (I think this one was Mealsquares)

"You’ve got more important things to do than worry about food."

"Enjoy a 26 hour day"

I wrote a parody post based on the marketing on the web page and my own personal outrage with the claims:

https://medium.com/@__1/on-food-and-not-cooking-4c9fba0d2d20

I still believe my note is true:

    Note: Neither Soylent nor Mealsquares make any public claims that I could find, 
    beneficial or otherwise, about using their product for the complete nutrition 
    of women, especially those expecting or nursing, children, teenagers, the 
    elderly, or people with medical conditions, including malnutrition. I think 
    it’s probably optimized for healthy males, aged 20–40-ish, or in the words 
    of Soylent: “All Adults”, but I don’t have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering 
    like Rob, so I probably shouldn’t comment. 
    
    Please proceed at your own risk just in case.

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