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Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by deeth_starr_v on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:37PM (#14269087)
I apologize for using "chemicals" rather than using correct terms. I was just using it as a shorthand for something grown vs something made.

Edit: This seems to be your argument, that engineered is the same as non-engineered. Because they are all the same basic building blocks. Right?

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Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by derefr on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:24PM (#14269418)
How do you feel about orange juice manufacturing? They take "something grown", fractionally distil it apart into tanks of purified constituent molecules, and then create a drink by mixing stuff from those tanks together.

Is the result of this process "grown"? "Made"? "Engineered"? All of the above?

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Re:Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV by humanrebar on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:32PM (#14269468)
> ...that engineered is the same as non-engineered

I was just saying the vague and abused "chemicals" is a bad descriptor. It's fair to rail against "manufactured", "under-researched", or "engineered" ingredients.

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