&gt; <i>Captive animals, who have lost their freedom to graze naturally, are fed commercial products derived and processed from corn, soy, and vegetable oil. The ingredients are designed to keep animals alive in a confined and restricted environment as cheaply as possible without a reduction in weight. When you read the story of a software engineer overworked, too busy to eat, and consumes Soylent, there are some definite parallels.</i><p>Really? This doesn&#x27;t even pretend to be a coherent argument. Is the idea that Soylent is morally wrong because it is similar to livestock feed? Here, I have a better idea: maybe it is similar because the components of a healthy vegetarian diet for many mammals are very similar.<p><i>Pigs, which give birth to children, wallow in their own excrement and are shunned by the gods, share 98% of their DNA with humans. When you read the story of a software engineer with a family, who enjoys the outdoors, and has this DNA, there are some definite parallels.</i><p>I mean come on.