We see unsuitably dressed workers scooping powders from uncovered boxes on a factory floor into other boxes to be mixed, with rats in the factory.

They've left that factory now, but it's telling that even though Rob didn't think the factory was suitable for a number of reasons he still went ahead and prepared and shipped product to (I assume) paying beta testers.

What more do you need?

Agreed.

I think part of the backlash is from Soylent's hubris about how it's perfectly optimized, etc. I think we have a long way to go before drawing any conclusion, but it's a promising technology.

> Until Soylent is proved unsafe, there is no basis for calling it unsafe.

This is exactly backwards, and is precisely the reasoning scammers use to sell worthless treatments.