Could You Live On This Muck?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36265566

[AB Editor]

Depends if you want to live forever?

I think one the benefits of soylent is that if you were on it exclusively you wouldn't wear yourself out processing food.

Obviously, that means you don't get to enjoy food either!

I couldn't live on it.

[douglas9401]

A strange choice of name since it was revealed in the movie that Soylent Green was made from processed human corpses.

I probably could live on it, but I wouldn't. Bloody Yanks.

[Mamyalynne]

Not a clue if I could but I don't want to try.

[ChillDoubt]

I agree with douglas. The name alone conjures images I'd rather not consider....

[ToraToraTora]

technically you could live on it but surely you'd be Hank all day, would that not be a bit distracting?

[Mamyalynne]

It purports to provide all one needs, so theoretically you'd get more work done if anything.

[viv41]

No, thank you very much !

[Lie-in King]

From the look of the "serving", I feel sure I'd want more -

"That's not a drink, it's a dirty glass"

[Mamyalynne]

The Lion's share then?

[ToraToraTora]

so that alone would sate continuous hunger? right oh!

[Mamyalynne]

If their claims are true...

//A Silicon Valley company says it has developed a drink that contains all the nutrients and calories a person needs.//

As we know people eat more calories than their bodies need and then there is the smell and sensation aspect to consider, which is why I wouldn't even try it.

If I were someone who had no interest in food and simply needed to eat to live then I might.

[Lie-in King]

I wonder how the digestive system reacts after a while - would one hear the "Sound of Soylents"?

[Mamyalynne]

Groannn.