There are also those of us that derive no joy from eating. Eating is an inconvenience to me. I have zero sweet tooth, and I don't have many cravings for specific foods. I'd rather be doing any number of other things, like reading, working out, yard/car work, calling up family, etc. I work for myself (and work reasonable hours). Of course, all of this anecdotal, but the point is that this isn't a dystopia scenario for all of us.
Having an incredibly convenient/healthy option would be outstanding for me personally. I suspect that people like me may represent a much smaller percentage of the population. I want to be healthy, but I hate shopping for and preparing food to the point where I sometimes don't eat as well as I should.
With that said, I wouldn't wish my food indifference on other people. I could see how it'd be spooky to see this kind of living being forced on people. It's probably a bit premature to worry about this just yet, though. Soylent and other similar products are still so polarizing that it's hard to imagine them taking over in the near future.
I accept that fact that some people like yourself find a product such as Soylent to be convenient, and I am in no position to criticize such personal choices.
But there are lots of existing products on the market, that have been available for quite some time now, everything from nutrition shakes to complete food replacements for people with chronic diseases (Crohn's, IBS, etc...), and Soylent seems to be more of the same, sans the actual clinical testing and trials that guarantee the safety of such products (and with the added Silicon Valley hype, of course.)
I broke my jaw twice and had to subsist on this stuff for 2 months at a time. It just plain sucks, and after 2 months of not chewing your teeth feel soft, and everything hurts when you do (eventually) chew. Also lost weight really quickly, went from 183 to 127 in 2 months.
But chewing is just one of the many phases of digesting food. What about swallowing, digesting stuff in the stomach, functioning of liver, pancreas, spleen. Small intestines, large intestines.
Surely you can't chew gum to keep these organs functioning.
>>It just plain sucks, and after 2 months of not chewing your teeth feel soft
I'm wondering what other damage it can do. If you stop eating real food for long times, will your ability to digest(secrete digestive juices etc) real food go away.
If that is the case. I don't think soylent is worth anything on earth. That extra an hour that you wish to save by not cooking and eating, can cripple you for life.
It's only in the last year that I've actually realized that I have no sense of smell. I didn't even know such a thing existed.
I've always noticed that something was off and smelling a flower, or coffee, etc. didn't hold any meaning to me.
Now I know that its due to my practically non-existent sense of smell. I don't know when this happened but I was either born with it or it occurred at an early age.
It's tough to feel you are missing something when you've never experienced it.
I do know its much much harder for people that have had some kind of nose issue and lose their sense of smell.
Having an incredibly convenient/healthy option would be outstanding for me personally. I suspect that people like me may represent a much smaller percentage of the population. I want to be healthy, but I hate shopping for and preparing food to the point where I sometimes don't eat as well as I should.
With that said, I wouldn't wish my food indifference on other people. I could see how it'd be spooky to see this kind of living being forced on people. It's probably a bit premature to worry about this just yet, though. Soylent and other similar products are still so polarizing that it's hard to imagine them taking over in the near future.