Soylent now stoping the shipment of thier powders too.

[Digital_Damage]

They have stopped shipping basically their entire product line.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/1...ng-people-sick

Soylent stops shipping powder that was making people sick

Following halt of nutrition bar sales

Not looking to start a squabble, just important for people to know if you have their products.

[WillBrink]

They have stopped shipping basically their entire product line.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/1...ng-people-sick

Not looking to start a squabble, just important for people to know if you have their products.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you...I'd be interested to know where the contract manufacturer who produces it for them is located. Wouldn't be surprised if it was made in China. I could smell the fail on this one from miles. Hopefully that's the end of this sub par product.

At this point, all things considered, obligatory

[Co-gnARR]

Cue the defense from their rabid supporters in 3....2....1....

[travistheone]

Cue the defense from their rabid supporters in 3....2....1....

*supporter

[jpmuscle]

Didn't we just have a thread on this not to long ago wherein the OP thought this was amazing stuff?

I expressed mirth extensively I recall.

[BallisticHarmony]

Yeah, because no other company has ever recalled a food product. If you actually read the literature, people affected were less than .1%. I just finished drinking 2.0 and 1.6 for a month straight and wasn't sick once. In fact, my bloodwork just came in so you can all see how sick I am (I'll save you the trouble, I'm not).



Seriously, the superiority complexes on here are pretty suffocating.

[WillBrink]

Seriously, the superiority complexes on here are pretty suffocating.

Don't let the screen door hit you in the...enjoy your Soylent.

Vice investigates Soylent, finds rats and mold

https://pando.com/2013/11/12/vice-in...rats-and-mold/

"Watching the playback from one of the interviews we filmed inside the Soylent factory, we noticed a rodent hightailing it out of an area where ingredients were stacked. Soylent is chock-full of nutritious goodies; there are whole bags filled with nothing but carbohydrates, and some of it appeared to be constantly spilling out onto the floor as it was mixed."

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/soy...ng-for-30-days

[BallisticHarmony]

Wow, Will loves bringing up articles that are 3 years old. Again, I'm sure Soylent is the only company with rats during its teething phase.

As for the recall, only 1.6 and the bars were recalled for most likely soy or sucralose intolerance. 2.0 and Coffiest are still selling just fine. Again, I didn't die, and no one else has either. Can't say the same for most other diets.

[WillBrink]

Wow, Will loves bringing up articles that are 3 years old. Again, I'm sure Soylent is the only company with rats during its teething phase.

As for the recall, only 1.6 and the bars were recalled for most likely soy or sucralose intolerance. 2.0 and Coffiest are still selling just fine. Again, I didn't die, and no one else has either. Can't say the same for most other diets.

Your cognitive dissonance complete and on full display here. I rest my case son.

[WillBrink]

Here's a good article, The Real Soylent Sickness, via the New Yorker on Soylent and the ilk. The article makes some solid points, such as:

"The tech world approaches food from the perspective of engineering: a defined problem to be solved, with the right equations, formulas, compounds, and brainpower. Soylent was developed by its creator, Rob Rhinehart, to compress all the nutrition the human body needs to live into one single, easily digestible formula, like the twenty-first-century version of manna. But that is fundamentally the opposite of the way we increasingly want to eat in America and in much of the developed world."

The article misses several key points however, such as, the fact the people developing them don't have any background for it, and don't know jack shit about human physiology, nutrition, etc, and have no business assuming their tech background some how qualifies them, hence you end up with a product of cheap garbage per products like Soylent et al.

Two, the article, and the inventors in Silicon Valley of this and similar products, act as if the category of what's referred to as Meal Replacement Powders (MRPs) didn't already exist, and has existed for well over a decade. MRPs have been a staple product in the bodybuilding/sports nutrition market since the 90s, some of which are very well formulated and contain quality ingredients, a few of which I listed here prior.

For a variety of reasons, people should not replace quality real food with MRPs, but a quality MRP is perfectly acceptable over say junk food or when time is very tight, or after a workout when some quick quality liquid nutrition is wanted. I prefer homemade MRPs if given the choice, and also supplied a recipe for such in the existing Soylent related threads.