Soylent, the meal replacement drink that’s been called both “the future of food” in breathless headlines and “the end of food” by the New Yorker, can’t be shipped to Canadian consumers anymore due to a failure to meet federal food regulations. CBC | Health News
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Canadian regulators have blocked Soylent, producers say
Soylent, shipping now. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has taken action that led to a cessation of shipments of Soylent to Canadian customers, according to Soylent producer Rosa Foods. As Ars reported two years ago, Rosa Foods began shipping Soylent in Canada in July of 2015. Then, there was a recall of the meal replacement bars […]
The psychology of Soylent and the prison of first-world food choices
(credit: Aurich Lawson / Lee Hutchinson / Thinkstock) Back around Labor Day 2013, Senior Editor Lee Hutchinson passed on the various grilled and barbecue delights of a holiday weekend. Instead, he spent seven days testing a peculiar new nutritional meal substitute—Soylent. The product has only grown in notoriety and evolved in its composition since. This […]
