A New Food Substitute Called Soylent Might Render Eating Unnecessary

The future where people don't have to eat to survive might not be that far away. And it doesn't involve anything made from people.

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A new substitute might make eating one of those things you don't have to do if you don't want to. It's called Soylent, and it might be the liquidated future.

Created by 25-year-old entrepreneur and Georgia Tech grad Rob Rhinehart because "Food was such a large burden," Soylent aims to give users the necessities they need to survive, while eliminating the time and financial expenses associated with purchasing and preparing food:

Rhinehart’s roommates were skeptical. One told me, “It seemed pretty weird.” They kept shopping at Costco. After a month, Rhinehart published the results of his experiment in a blog post, titled “How I Stopped Eating Food.” The post has a “Eureka!” tone. The chemical potion, Rhinehart reported, was “delicious! I felt like I’d just had the best breakfast of my life.” Drinking Soylent was saving him time and money: his food costs had dropped from four hundred and seventy dollars a month to fifty.

While, as the New Yorker notes, people are calling Soylent "the end of food," Rhinehart doesn't quite see it that way: 

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Rhinehart may (heavy emphasis on "may") be onto something. You knew this was coming eventually.

[via The New Yorker]

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