If you could get all the nutrition you needed in a day with a pill — no worrying about what to eat, no food preparation — would you do it?

I can’t really see how this could end well. The pill would have to be one hell of a complicated mess in order to stuff everything you need into it. This doesn’t even go on with the notion that you’d be losing an incredible amount of pleasure – why stay alive if you can’t enjoy all the varied textures and flavors that food has to offer? I can’t see people salivating over a pill, yearning for the taste which probably is nil and the aftertaste or burp-up which has got to be rather nasty.

On a quite other level, it does put shame to your teeth. Why have them if all you need to do is swallow a pill? I suppose this would be good for people who have ALS and are trapped in their bodies, it would make nutrition at least possible if they’ve lost the ability to chew. For anyone else though, it seems a terrible waste of life’s fleeting pleasures.