[vcool07]

Eating is not just to survive, human body is not an automobile that you fill gasoline in and make it work. If thats the expectation, then whats the difference between a human and a machine ? Buying food, cooking it, or baking a nice recipe you found, sharing food with friends, calling over your friends/family to dinner, having a nice meal with everyone, these are all interactions that makes us human. Get rid of all of them , then humans are not "living" anymore, they are simply "existing".

[randomsilence]

You could still live without those food rituals if you replace them with other means of human interactions. Instead of sharing a meal, you could also go on a hike with friends. Is there something essential to a meal that cannot be replaced?

Though in principal I agree with you. Food is a pivotal point in life. Which makes me wonder: How much is our life determined by the rituals that surround food?

[lordkrandel]

In Italy, 80%+.

Eating is the main source of social aggregation in the small group. It's the phisiological nature of the gesture, the biological need to eat, that brings everybody to the same table where the resource is.

Also cooking is a ritual, that prepares you to the meal with smells, sight, hunger. It also makes you relax. Try that, if you don't actually cook yourself your meals.

[xboxnolifes]

> If thats the expectation, then whats the difference between a human and a machine

I'm pretty sure the difference between a human and a machine is not our fuel source. It's our thinking capacity.