It is the year of our lord 2024, and we are approximately 41% of the way towards owning nothing and being happy. Many of our benefactors have gone ahead and started with the incorporation of bugs and other protein rich ingredients in our daily use products. The latest pioneer into this new frontier appears to be Soylent, proudly coming out with their new Insect line of soy based meal replacements.
I am your trustworthy tengu reporter Aya Shameimaru here to give you the most TRUTHFUL and RELIABLE news on the activities of the Outside World.
One Redditor seems to be distressed over the discovery of savory seasoning in his Soylent drink!
Recent order of pumpkin spice I found what looks like dead bugs under the outer wrapping. The inner seal looks intact but I'm not sure I want to risk drinking them. Anyone else experience this? Wondering if I should request a refund for this order
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That looks to me like a small over fill that led to leakage. Not bugs
The small over fill in question:
More protein? Kk thats gross. Sorry op. Hope you get a refund. I'm never buying soylent again.
Bugs are good for you, have you tried taking a workshop on Media Literacy?
Was this ordered from directly Soylent? So gross
Yes direct from their online store, not Amazon or Walmart...
Did you report this to the FDA yet? Otherwise someone else can, because this is a serious probably for a lot of us who live on Soylent
I LIVE ON SOY!!! OH MY SCIENCE I AM OUTRAGED!!! 
And with their recent supply issues in Canada... I am losing any remaining trust I have in Soylent.
Poor Leafs can't get a break. First they have to be Canadian, now they have to deal with trust issues! 
This isn't the only instance of this I've found. I've done some investigation into other incidents like this one.
Is there anyone in the Outside World who can solve this incident?
https://old.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/rw7rre/bug_eggs_in_my_cafe_chai_box/
Ordered a box of 12 Cafe Chai through Amazon, and received this. The box appeared to be water damaged, as well. Buyer beware.
Edit: According to /r/whatisthisbug, these are dead, desiccated maggots. Fun!
When I ordered my first box of Soylent 4 years ago it had a cricket in it.
Take some pics of any serial number of batch ID that you can get and email to Soylent and ask for a replacement. Also, throw the box, it's not worth the risk. Soylent will replace it for you quickly enough. They did for mine.
Edit: Obviously I ate the cricket for extra protein once I grilled it to get rid of any contaminants.
Free grilled crickets! Yahoo! 
https://old.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/6mhnoq/new_ingredient_in_soylent_18_this_bug/
Found this in the box of 1.8 I just opened. Haven't opened the bags yet but gross.
Better check with the landlord and see if they allow pets.
looks like you got the extra protein pack
There is always an upside to a happy little accident!
Also here's a freak who sees it as a feature instead of a bug !carlos 
https://old.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/6bgnnn/soylent_powder_with_insect_protein/
Hi guys! I have seen that a lot of people have done their own DIY formulas for Soylent or Huel, and I have a doubt... would be possible to make it with cricket powder protein? Since is an animal based protein, it would have the aminoacids and the protein itself is cheaper than whey or vegetable based protein. What are your thoughts on this?
Crickets sound like a safe and sensible alternative to reduce both your carbon footprint and quality of life. What a steal! 
I experimented with that and wrote about it here: The Case for Crickets :p
That was an interesting and informative read! Cricket drinks though... I don't think I could do it. I'm impressed you drank a whole cup of it for the sake of science (and business)!
Trust the science!!! 
RL has enough difficulty getting regular people to buy their product without adding bugs to it
Ultimately, you should be mindful of the things you put in your body. If you want to be a good reporter like me, I recommend eating only the best mochi and sake provided by the lovely people of Gensokyo.
Until next time!
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The Case for Crickets :p is actually this soybug describing souping up his soylent with bugpaste
https://custombodyfuel.com/2015/01/the-case-for-crickets/
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Hopefully Soylent can put in a few poisonous critters and wipe out some of these r-slurs
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That black bug looks like some sort of weevil. Maybe a vine weevil?
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Well first you can look at the reporting in those mainstream media articles. As the art of war dictates, "know thy enemy", once your finding actual studies, then trace back the studies that they reference. Look at the bios of the authors, see if the scientific community has upheld their research with peer reviewed studies from people that stand to gain nothing from the outcome of the peer reviews.
Now that you're looking at actual scientific studies, do your best to understand what is the question and answer each study is trying to solve. Confirm that by reviewing the other peer reviewed studies to see if everything matches up.
During these long and tedious tasks, you will probably want to stop, cause your brain with hurt and you'll be bogged down by information overload. This is natural, take a break and consolidate your thoughts, are what these authors claiming accurate? Are they making assumptions without supporting evidence? And supporting evidence needs to be confirming on its own. As in you can't make assumptions every confirming step.
Once you feel like you have the mental acuity to continue, press on. It's gonna be more of a slog, because let's face it, science papers are written for scientists and not us lay-men. But press on. You are not a sheep and thus you need to be able to confirm your own thoughts about the topic to not be lead astray. You'll probably feel extremely bored because none of this information generates emotion.
Once you've done all that, do the same thing for the other side. Find all the personal held beliefs you have about any topic. Watch the YouTube videos, read the other studies done. This part will be far easier, you'll probably notice that you are more engaged, your emotions will be higher, and you'll be nodding along to all of this stuff.
As a fun side test, try and film yourself watching these videos. For review later. If you're an avg person you'll see that you have all the signs of someone being sold something, obviously you'll need to step away before you watch the video of yourself, coming at it with a clear mind right?
Anywho, that's the beginning. And frankly I doubt you'll take this step because it is difficult. The hardest thing we can ever do is examine our deeply held beliefs. And to do it without the influence of others.
To be clear, I'm not doubting your ability to grow or examine yourself as a free and critical thinker, rather I doubt you will put in the effort. I refused to do it for about 15 years. Only when I unplugged from the influences that I thought were legitimate that I started to realize that both sides are feeding you trash. It is our responsibility to sort through it and make sense of this world.
If you have made it this far, Bravo, I hope you try some of this for yourself. In your own way. So that you won't think I'm trying to influence you any more than to make you question your deepest held beliefs.
I'll leave you with my favorite Aristotle quote:
"It is the mark of an educated mind, to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
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Oh my science what a waste of perfectly edible nutrients
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Eat the bugs and be happy
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