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Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by hammock on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:54PM (#14267088)
>"eat what your grand-grand parents ate"

Not possible, unfortunately. Meat and vegetables are so totally different now. For example meats are raised on GM corn and antibiotics, altering their balance of omega 3's, impact on gut health, and other things. While today's vegetables are massively decremented in micronutrients- and may have less arsenic-based pesticide residue than your greatgrandparents', but more of other pesticides.

Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by metamet on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:06PM (#14267206)
They still exist. Eat locally from farmers. All my beef is grass fed (which have higher omega 3's), for example.

And if you can't because of where you live, there's a good chance neither could your grandparents had if they lived there as well.

Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by leshow on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:32PM (#14267957)
Or you could take an omega-3 supplement and eat normal beef. There isn't much evidence to show that grass-fed beef has any measurable effect on health.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by cabinguy on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:26PM (#14268984)
There isn't much evidence to show that supplements do either.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by deeth_starr_v on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:06PM (#14269285)
Agreed, research here is that supplements don't have an impact.

Edit: For pregnant women and others for sure. But in the general population no

Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by iopq on Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:17PM (#14270111)
Well, fish oil does have SOME evidence behind it.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by lambdadmitry on Friday May 05, 2017 @10:56AM (#14273873)
However, there is strong evidence that any type of beef may cause cancer.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by metamet on Monday May 08, 2017 @11:10AM (#14292158)
I am pretty sure this isn't true.

The advanced glycation end products from overcooked/burnt meat have been shown to, but not meat itself.

Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by theoh on Thursday May 04, 2017 @07:06PM (#14269671)
Better to eat how your great grandparents would have eaten if they lived somewhere notorious for long, healthy lives.

There's such a gap between Soylent and something like Wendell Berry's ideas:

https://www.ecoliteracy.org/article/wendell-berry-pleasures-...

People do mention that in relation to Soylent, encouragingly (whether it's altogether right or not). Historical perspective is very important.

Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by leshow on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:34PM (#14267969)
Do you have any evidence? I'd love to see a comparison of nutrients in produce over the decades.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by Scottn1 on Friday May 05, 2017 @04:25AM (#14271917)
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by briandear on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:03PM (#14269266)
Any peer reviewed, legitimate studies that suggest GM corn causes problems with beef? It's popular to critique GM, but it often seems like a knee-jerk reaction rather than based on actual scientific studies. And by studies, I don't mean an article in Mother Jones, but actual science.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by SimbaOnSteroids on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:37PM (#14269494)
I mean it tastes better but that's not peer reviewable, the major issue currently is that the microbiom of a cow's digestive track really can't handle corn that well and as a result methane output of the live stock skyrockets contributing more drastically to anthropomorphic climate change.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by paulcole on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:42PM (#14267511)
yeah, the apples of today are so different from my grandpa's apple that a bottle of soy sludge is a much better choice nutritionally.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by jboggan on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:57PM (#14267666)
Learn to hunt. Its rewards go beyond better personal nutrition.
Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by Lambdanaut on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:59PM (#14268765)
> Not possible, unfortunately

My wife raises our livestock and garden while I work. Yesterday I had a sandwich and I know where every ingredient came from(our yard). Look, it's not impossible. It just requires you to look outside of your modern context.

Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by vkou on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:46PM (#14269551)
You grow, thresh, and mill your own grain? That must be a lot of work.