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Soylent To Feed Starving Children

by Hank Pellissier

Can DIY-Soylent cure the pangs of World Hunger? Can the alchemists of future food collect sufficient funds to fill the bellies of famished children?


Powderedfoods.com believes YES. On June 11, they launched a crowdfunding campaign – their weighty ambition is to ship 3 million calories to The Philippines, enough chemical chow to satiate every starving young student at San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy for 2 weeks.

Recipients are the Alangyan Mangyan, an indigenous tribe in the mountain jungles of Mindoro island. Malnourished, isolated, largely illiterate, with parasitical worms, tuberculosis, diarrhea, measles, no clean water and no sewage systems, the Alangyan Mangyan are “the poorest of the poor” – earning an average of $30/month.

Powderedfood.com aims to fill the childrens’s tummies with a massive 4,200 pound rescue package, blended for free by DIY-Soylent producers. Will the Mangyan children swallow the Soylent regularly, and declare it tasty? Director Sally Melendres assures Powderedfood.com that they will, in the email below:

Hello Aleh,

I’m Sally from the foothills of Mount Halcon, Im very happy to know you and your great support to our “Mangyan” children. Please accept our sincerest thanks and gratitude in advance! Your work to feed and make our children healthy is truly great!!!

I will explain very well with our Mangyan brothers and children the good effects of Soylent in achieving good health. The whole community is one with us on our campaign towards making them a healthy community. Please be assured that they will love to take DIYSoylent daily.

God bless you.. for your great works!

Very gratefully,

Sally

IEET will help publicize this DIY-Soylent campaign (thank you Kris Notaro), and HplusMagazine.com will help promote as well (thank you, Peter Rothman) via their beautifully-designed new website. The Mormon Transhumanist Association has already contributed cold, hard, valuable CA$H – thanks again Lincoln Cannon! The great new futurist site Wave Chronicle, is also going to support the effort (thanks to Mike Dodd).

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San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy is a “reservation school” that provides K-8 education to 140 children. Student family members dwell on the school property, elevating the population to 300. Mangyan subsist here on root crops, snails, rats, insects, fruit, and neighbor’s rice left over on stalks after harvests. To squelch their hunger they chew betel nut, an addictive substance that stains teeth black and leads to oral cancer.
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Half of the Mangyan children were recently “de-wormed” via medicine provided by funds from the Brighter Brains Institute, a SFBay think-and-do tank. Brighter Brains also sponsors 33 of the children at the school; it pays the teacher salary and provides a daily lunch. The think-and-do tank requested DIY Soylent for the pupils.

Your generosity can save the lives and health of children, and demonstrate the world-changing potential of Soylent.

Material costs and postage for the 2+ ton cargo is needed – Donate via the Button found at the bottom of THIS PAGE.

Are futurists, transhumanists, biohackers, and QSers … Humanitarian enough to eagerly fund this project? I’m not sure… two years ago, I spearheaded a Cell Phone Drive for The African Futures Project at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology (IEET.org). I anticipated collecting 1,000 mobiles from the think tank’s techno-progressive membership… but… truth is… I only received 100 total, and 70 were from my close family members. The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) generously donated 30 Blackberries, Nokias, etc., (thank you Roger Hansen) but “mainstream” transhumanists? How many did they donate? ZERO. Are they Cheap? Lazy? Selfish? All three?

June 23, 2014By Hank Pellissier

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  • NanaK

    Soylent is a fantastic supplement, unlike a basic vitamin, that can provide
    complete nutrition in addition to whatever food they can get. It doesn’t
    “replace” food intake but it is equivalent to a completely balanced & healthy
    meal. The concept is to promote nutritional balance in general.
    This builds the immune system like a preventive measure. So, for much
    less cost they are getting so much more. This is my understanding from
    the friends that use it. Correct me if I’m wrong.

  • Pixie Xele

    Soylent green…as in PEOPLE?!?!?! That’s sick, man.

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