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Radio 4,14 Nov 2014,10 mins

Soylent and the Charm of the Fast Lane

A Point of View

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The new food substitute Soylent allows you to give up eating meals in order to have more free time. But John Gray argues that human beings crave busy lives. We want to be distracted, he says, so we don't have to think too much. Producer: Adele Armstrong.

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