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Essay / Synthetic foods: solving nutritional problems and...
In the article "The End of Food", Lizzie Widdicombe describes the advancement of our food culture thanks to a new product developed by three young men living in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. After failing to produce inexpensive new cell phone towers with a one hundred and seventy thousand dollar investment, the three men tried to develop software with their remaining funding. While trying to maximize the longevity of their funding, they realized their biggest budget obstacle was food. In fact, they reached the point where their diet consisted mostly of fast food and came to despise the fact that they had to spend so much time and money eating. Due to these difficulties, Rob Rhinehart, one of the entrepreneurs, came up with the idea. According to a survey by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), more than two in three adults are considered overweight or obese. For dieting, Soylent is a good option. Since it doesn't require anything else, Soylent allows for extremely controlled consumption, as it contains a specific number of calories and also contains a lower amount of sugar. Soylent is very affordable and therefore a solution for those who cannot afford healthier foods. For example, one of the students Widdicombe spoke to said that before eating Soylent, "there were weeks where they only ate pasta with cheese." Synthetic foods are a great solution to malnutrition because they are pure, cheap, void-free nutrition. As Rhinehart claims, “Farming is one of the most dangerous and dirtiest jobs there is, and it is traditionally done by the underclass. There is so much walking and manual labor and counting and measuring. Surely this should be automated. Our job market is changing. Menial labor and services once made up a larger portion of what Americans did for a living, but in the future all of these jobs will no longer exist due to technological advancements. If synthetic foods begin to replace traditional foods, traditional manual agricultural labor will disappear. In fact, Rhinehart is trying to start producing omega-3 oil from algae. The Soylent team hopes they can create a Soylent-producing “super-organism”: a single strain of algae that pumps out Soylent all day long. » By completely automating agricultural production, we solve world hunger, reduce the risks of resource wars, thereby making the world a better place. The development of synthetic foods is a movement. There are many nutritional problems, both around the world and in Canada, and synthetic foods are a viable solution to our problem. People are obese, overweight, diabetic or malnourished because healthy food costs too much. Synthetic foods have the ability to change the workforce, restructure our culture toward greater productivity, and improve the quality of life for Americans. By supporting synthetic foods, we support