https://crystal.castle.cc/tag/cocoa/ Recent content in Cocoa on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Sun, 15 Jun 2014 02:45:10 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2014/06/15/im-giving-up-cooking-to-drink-soylent-this-week-heres-why/ Sun, 15 Jun 2014 02:45:10 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2014/06/15/im-giving-up-cooking-to-drink-soylent-this-week-heres-why/ <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2599" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_20140608_191655-1024x768.jpg" alt="All natural Soylent mix" width="640" height="480" /></p> <p>Last month, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=all" target="_blank">the New Yorker published a piece on Soylent</a>, a shelf-stable powder that can be mixed with water to become a meal replacement. &#8220;The End of Food,&#8221; the headline screamed, &#8220;Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?&#8221; Unlike Slim Fast and similar products, Soylent claims to be nutritionally complete, the only thing you&#8217;ll need to eat (er, drink) for the rest of your life (which hopefully will not be shortened due to diet). Also, it was invented by a bunch of young engineers who subsequently launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to manufacture Soylent for the masses. <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/21/soylent-crowdfunding-campaign-attracts-755k-so-people-can-survive-without-food/" target="_blank">$755,000 later</a>, we are that much closer to a humanity that doesn&#8217;t have to think about food ever again. This despite a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green">name that was intentionally chosen for dark humor</a>.</p>