>And when you get down to it, the palatable portion of the issue becomes the biggest problem.

I find palatability an odd thing in the sense that there's the phenomenon of acquired taste. In my experience acquired taste applies the most towards bitter foods and drinks.

I hated the zero-sugar low-fat yoghurt at first. It tasted horrible. The more I got into it however, the more I liked it's rather unique refreshing taste. It freshens the palate unlike any other food and as such I got used to the bitter taste and started to like it instead.

Same thing with beer, it seems everyone hates beer when they taste it the first time. The more you get used to it however, the more you find the taste refreshing I feel. Nothing more refreshing than a cold beer on a hot summer day.

>We suck all the fiber out of foods and feed it back to animals

Fiber for me is somewhat similar. I really love fibrous, almost rock hard, full-grain rye bread. My jaw will get sore from eating that, but there's something to it to really have to chew it down. However I used to hate it and love soft bread in the past: the texture and it's chewiness is akin to an acquired taste.

> Yea, it's like the entire industry forgot the premise of CI-CO.

I don't think they forget, it's just not profitable to admit it or work it into their products.

That makes me think of a Pratchett quote:

> In fact, like a lot of [semaphore] towers, it was often manned by kids. Everyone knew it happened. Actually, the new management probably didn't, but wouldn't have done anything about it if they'd found out, apart from carefully forgetting that they'd known. Kids didn't need to be paid.

-- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

For a bit more context, the semaphore towers in the plot are analogous to the early internet and issues of monopolies.

> They'd come and hang around and do odd jobs and maybe pick up the craft of semaphore just by watching. They tended to be bright, they mastered the keyboard and levers as if by magic, they usually had good eyesight and what they were doing, most of them, was running away from home without actually leaving.

I’m sure you’re being hyperbolic, but consuming 10k calories per day shouldn’t be easy for anyone. No matter how hyper palatable your food is, 10k calories is an absolutely absurd amount of calories and would make most people feel sick. That said, it only takes a few extra hundred calories per day to make you gain 10s of pounds per year.