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by sandworm101 3163 days ago
They aren't out to fix all the health problems associated with what people do and don't eat, or about any lack of food. The "solve nutrition" stuff is more about solving the "what shall I eat today" question. It's about providing a product to lazy people. They throw some science in because they know that sells to their target market, which isn't everyone. Like most other fad foods the real product is the marketing hype. This news will help. It positions them as another cutting edge company being trampled upon by notoriously evil Canadian food regulators interested only in protecting their vast maple sugar monopolies.
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> They aren't out to fix all the health problems associated with what people do and don't eat

That's not how the crowd funding went - it was a product suitable for everyone, that would put you in perfect health.

The Canadians are saying Soylent can't be sold as a sole source of nutrition - how is this useful to Soylent? Every soylent thread has people saying the differentiating factor for Soylent is that it can be used as a sole source of nutrition.

They are out to earn money. Period. You can`t fix anything with soya and sunflower oil.