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The devil would be in the details. Companies would lobby hard for exceptions to be made and abused and nonsense. See the pasta sauce counting as a serving of vegetable for an example. Rules defining what is and is not a fruit, veggie, meat, and milk aren't very sexy, there's not going to be a lot of public oversight of the process until it gets ridiculous (see again pasta sauce as vegetable for an example.)

I'd like to see a pilot program where food stamps can only be used to purchase something like soylent. Nutritionally complete and defined, no ability for food megacorps to get much wiggle room, and healthy.

How do you feel about products like Soylent and the community building around such products? Do you think this is something that could catch on?

Other interesting article: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2013/08/20/soylent/

I registered there yesterday. I do hope that Soylent doesn't sue. I realize they're both named after the movie, but it will likely lead to confusion when people google the words soylent and news.

It's right there on the blog for the official commercial Soylent product: http://blog.soylent.me/ It has a full list of ingredients, along with quantities.

Yeah, I wouldn't care to be one of those gambling my health on the foodless diet...

I did it for a few weeks with good results. Lost weight, increased energy, felt better overall. More information.

Are you sure about that? According to the main page FAQ (bottom)
Is there any soy in Soylent?
Hardly any. Please see blog.soylent.me for a preliminary ingredient list, once the formula is finalized we will be releasing the official Soylent v1.0 ingredients/nutritional breakdown.

Somebody beat you to it and I'm not talking about the film. There is a product called Solent intended to be an inexpensive meal substitute. Apparently it is not too bad, and leaves you feeling full (and gassy.)

A good story about somebody who tried it for a week: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/nothing-but-the-soylent-were-trying-1-full-week-of-the-meal-substitute/
Their site where you can pre-order: https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body

I think that's why this guy made Soylent but I don't think it has been around long enough (or used widely enough) to know if it's healthy long term or not. If you read the site's blog or the creator's person blog you'll see that they've put a lot of research in but that's not enough for me to risk it.

There is a new product in pre-production the does exactly what you described. It's nutrition shake, not a solid food though. They should be shipping regular orders by sometime this fall.

For something closer to what you described, and more relevant to this post, NASA is funding research on a complete daily nutrition solid that may use an insect source for protein. This may be licensed as a commercial product sometime in the future.

Not a stick, but ...

3d food printers don't "create" food, just give shape to it, you still have to put some maleable food on it (i.e. Soylent) to produce something.

The replicator!!!

Not quite: https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body. What if you could feed your body everything it needed: nothing more, nothing less. I don't think 3D printing is required here, just powder plus water.

3D printers turns materials i,e, thermoplastic) into a shape. But you still need the base materials. We are far from CHON food syntetizers. They must have some input, and better to be nutrient complete (and not what they think is nutrient complete, but what our body effectively needs). What it will use? Insects?, Soylent green ?

Anyway, just giving shape to something that you already have don't seem so big breakthrough. Just making a smoothie with them should be pretty similar.