Dumbest idea of the century
A French scientist with the unlikely name of Herve This is pushing the stupidest idea of the century. He's synthesizing food from raw elements, mixing all sorts of things together to create the nutrition, flavor, and consistency of something more or less edible.

I'm going to call him Soylent Green because his actual name is too grammatically confusing in English.

Mr Green claims his food is the solution to an overpopulated world.

Incorrect from 4 different angles, Mr Green.

(1) In the big picture, the world can't be overpopulated. It's physically impossible. When the population in one area exceeds the food available in that area, people will die or move until pop = food again. Harsh but logical.

(2) Those areas where pop > food are extremely poor areas where technology hasn't reached 1920 yet. They don't have plumbing or tractors or kitchens or electricity or blenders or DNA replicators. Therefore your super-high-tech compounding is light years away from their comprehension or capacity. Your products would have to be shipped in, but there's no road system or storage system or retail store system for such products, so you'd have to build those systems first. Before you could build those systems you'd have to build electrical and water infrastructure and keep it away from the poor people so your electric trucks and stores and compounding facilities could use Just Enough Resources. And then you'd have to create a private army to protect the electrical and water infrastructure.

(3) By definition, poor people don't have money. How would your vast industry be funded? Would you allow the poor people to barter real chickens and real bananas for your fake chickens and fake bananas? Why in the fuck would they want to do that?

(4) In richer areas, ordinary REAL food is overabundant and wasted. Most people enjoy ordinary REAL food, and the richest people are the fussiest about avoiding GMOs and Gluten and anything that sounds artificial to their delicate ears.

In short, Soylent Green wouldn't solve any problems for the poor and it wouldn't be attractive to the rich, except maybe a handful of super-tech-fetish types like Elon Musk.
  ¶ 3:33 AM