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Hacker News would be very quiet if no-one commented and everybody made their purchasing decisions in quiet. This is a controversial diet, it is not clear if it is viable food replacement and it can affect your health, especially what are the effects long-term? Their page pitches environmental concerns, and I find that ridiculous. Are they serious that they aim for Soylent to be a large part of what people eat globally in the future?

Maybe the fact their branding and marketing copy is a paragon of hyperbole and ambiguity could have something to do with a hostile reception on a site with a relatively marketing- and logic-savvy readership. I'd be hard-pressed to come up with more dystopian PR than this, to the point where you have to wonder if it's satire.

I wouldn't even consider ingesting this mystery powder, even if they paid me.

What boundaries is it pushing?

Liquid feed is not new.

Right? Medifast. Optifast. Slimfast. There are literally thousands of options.