What Is "food"?

[AilinKyung]

Is it energy?

Is it good or bad?

Is it toxic?

What is food?

What "food" means to you?

[SFRL]

@AilinKyung

Energy/nutrients/pleasure/addiction all applies to it. 

[Michael569]

a fuel to prevent our cells from dying 

[Nahm]

@AilinKyung The first step in a spiritual life.

[vizual]

Food is to nature what money is to an economy. 

For an economy to be healthy, money has to keep moving. There has to be production and consumption. People have to buy stuff, and people have to create stuff, they go hand in hand. If people stop buying stuff, people will also stop creating stuff, until eventually the economy dies.

The same applies for nature. The drive to be fed keeps things moving in nature. It keeps it dynamic and moving, it drives evolution. When you stop looking for food, you go extinct. You could say food is energy, but so is money.

What would happen to nature if all species all of a sudden stopped needing food? Evolution would still carry on, but it would be severely stunted in its growth. There is just way less incentive to evolve.