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Re:Soylent: Operations Update by corresation on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:36AM (#6283299)
uses less resources to produce

You've run the numbers on this?

Re:Soylent: Operations Update by fc2 on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:58AM (#6283426)
No, but it sounds logical to me that it would be a lot more efficient to get, say, X tons of calcium from calcium carbonate than from milk, or protein from a high yielding source instead of one that needs to be tasty.
Re:Soylent: Operations Update by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @11:02AM (#6283823)
> No, but it sounds logical to me that it would be a lot more efficient to get, say, X tons of calcium from calcium carbonate than from milk, or protein from a high yielding source instead of one that needs to be tasty.

It might be, if you were considering each individual micronutrient individually. The thing about real foods is that they tend to be sources of multiple micronutrients. You get more than calcium from milk.