One of my writing ideas is a non-fiction book surrounding my approach to food. The "working title" for this work would be "An Inconvenient Necessity". The underlying idea: I hate food.
Food is incredibly inconvenient. First of all, you NEED it...a lot of it...throughout the day...every day!
You feel hungry, and so you eat. Within a few hours, you feel hungry again.
Even when you eat healthy, balanced foods throughout the day, you remain hungry. But then again, what is healthy and balanced? That definition changes almost daily, and is highly subjective, depending on your activity level, hormones, diagnoses, etc.
On top of the incessant need to eat, we have to obtain our food. That can mean growing our own, hunting, purchasing, or any other means of obtaining sustenance. Any of the above requires a certain amount of skill and effort.
Next, you have to store the food somewhere. And then you have to prepare it in one way or another, especially if you are to present it to others. After that, you must clean up after it: clean the kitchen, wash the dishes, throw away the waste, etc. Lastly, you must clean up after the waste products: take out the trash, and toilet duties (to put it politely).
Healthy and good foods rot and otherwise go bad relatively quickly. Foods that do not go bad are usually bad for your health.
To answer all of this, I have lamented in other forums that we do not have something similar in nature to "Soylent". If you recall the movie, there were more colors than green; only green was made from people.
Consuming something such as Soylent (for me) would solve much of the problems above. I wouldn't have to take the time to consume food, I wouldn't worry about the strawberries going bad, and I wouldn't have to prepare much.
I know, I know, many people truly enjoy food, but for me, Soylent seems like a great alternative to "real" food.
Enter the brilliance of NASA:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/nasa-awards-grant-3d-food-printer-could-end-194050661.html
I would buy this. In fact, I would volunteer to be a human test subject, once it is ready for human testing.
That's how I understand it
Laura
