The tech industry has had a long-time obsession with revolutionising food and the way we eat. From Soylent, the nutrient slurry intended for lifehacking programmers to optimise their sad lives, to the current obsession with plant-based and cell cultured meat, there are always venture-backed startups trying to disrupt the crap we stuff into our chompholes.

We dive in.

Links

* Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just Another Fad” - Bloomberg

* The original Soylent blog

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