Soylent Gone Green

[Brian Peacock]

People made sick by Soylent bars report 'gelatinous substance' on wrapper

The “future of food” company Soylent has recalled its new line of food bars after reports that the “meal replacement” has made people ill.

Soylent began selling 250-calorie bars in August, advertising them as a “12.5% of your daily nutritional requirements” that are “plant-based and protein rich”. In the weeks since, dyspeptic customers have filled Soylent’s message boards with complaints about the bar.

One man wrote that he emailed the company, saying: “I thought I was suddenly having something like a sugar crash, but an emergency-level sugar crash like I’d never felt before.” He laid down, “but the throwing up resumed as I seemingly emptied out my entire stomach and realized that this was probably the worst I had felt in my entire life. I then also had diarrhea.” He eventually went to the hospital and recovered, he said....

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... _clipboard

[cronus]

They've been putting the uncooked offal in the mix again.

[JimC]

It'll be mad herbivore disease, mark my words...

[Brian Peacock]

Someone at the factory really hates their job.

[Scot Dutchy]

It remains a load of crap either way.