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by digitalpacman 4396 days ago
You ship them soylent... watch the videos if you are interested. The problem to solve world hunger is not growing the food, it's logistics.
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The problem to solve world hunger is to be able to distribute staple crops more efficiently to places which don't have access to existing markets. There's no conceivable way that some highly refined meal-replacement product for the first world can be more economical than access to bulk amounts of grains. Even Soylent as an emergency food is an order of magnitude less economical than the existing solutions for famine relief, which are themselves extremely expensive in bulk.