Food: most of us enjoy eating it, some of us enjoy cooking it, and others enjoy looking at it on Pintrest and only thinking about making it. But no matter the medium in which you enjoy food, we can all agree that the process of food coming from the farm to your plate is a process that is plagued with inefficiency, lack of sanitation, and at times, the downright inhumane treatment of animals, (think Tyson Foods from “Food Inc.”). The solution to this process, at least as Rhinehart sees it, is his breakthrough, artificial food solution fittingly, as well as somewhat disturbingly dubbed, “Soylent.” Rhinehart, along with a growing number of other people, believe Soylent to be the replacement for the food that most of us are so accustomed to eating. But of course, like most revolutionary ideas, Rhinehart’s Soylent has some clear advantages over normal food, but comes with some glaring drawbacks as well. And for me, these drawbacks are simply too much to overcome for me to consider Soylent the “food” of the future.
To start right off with the pros of Soylent, I think the biggest advantage that Soylent has over regular food is that it is much cheaper than regular food, a big positive for most people. As Rhinehart said “his food costs had dropped from four hundred
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However, I believe one obvious disadvantage does stand out enough for me at least to say that I would not switch my diet to solely Soylent, and that is the poor marketability of Soylent. Even with how inexpensive and healthy it is, I don’t believe I, or a majority of other people, would be truly willing to give up regular food altogether, I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I couldn’t give up many of the foods I so often enjoy to survive solely on this doughy nutrient