Lindsay asked Michael Pollan:

What are your thoughts about the meal replacement, Soylent?

Michael Pollan Soylent, the new powder replacement for meals, strikes me as sad. It might get the job done--keeping you alive without eating food-- but they already have those nutrient solutions for very sick people in the hospital, and if you ask those patients about it, they would surely say, why would anyone ever want to voluntarily give up the pleasure of eating meals?!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I seriously doubt we know enough to completely simulate a healthy human diet-- there's an arrogance here about the state of our knowledge about nutrition.

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