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Soylent needs clean water and currently costs a couple of hundred dollars per month.
20% of the world's population live on less than $1.25 per day. About one billion people lack access to clean water.
http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/home
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/mdg1/en/index.htm...
The World Food Programme already has a range of products to use for develping nations. See their information, especially the pricing, here.
https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/how-wfp-fights-malnutrition
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...
https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/special-nutritional-products
"Fights world hunger" is just another claim made by Soylent in apparent ignorance of what already exists.
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Soylent needs clean water and currently costs a couple of hundred dollars per month.
20% of the world's population live on less than $1.25 per day. About one billion people lack access to clean water.
http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/home
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/mdg1/en/index.htm...
The World Food Programme already has a range of products to use for develping nations. See their information, especially the pricing, here.
https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/how-wfp-fights-malnutrition
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...
https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/special-nutritional-products
"Fights world hunger" is just another claim made by Soylent in apparent ignorance of what already exists.