Can We Move Beyond Food?

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pemmican, a mix of dried meat, tallow and berries, was created by Indigenous North Americans and was used for long voyages and military expeditions. The 1990s saw millions of people replace meals with SlimFast drinks in order to lose weight. In the early 2000s, sales were overtaken by other diet options.

The companies Soylent and Huel introduced powdered drinks with Silicon Valley types in mind, so that people who want to extend their hacking beyond computers and into their diet, by consuming all of the necessary nutrients via multiple daily shakes, no

SlimFast and other diet-oriented products preceded the craze for trendier, moremillennial-friendly drinks. Diana Vucane is a photographer.

You can find people who claim to have survived off of powder-based drinks such as Soylent and Huel for weeks or months at a time. While neither company recommends this tactic, some social media users see it as a welcome challenge and hope their personal experiments bring compelling results.