The act of eating is a service.

[Monica]

My first post above was just about to be posted in Shin'Ar's thread when... poof ! So I just wanted to get it out and maybe with a bit of luck manage to start a discussion on eating that is fruitful (pun intended ).

I am sure that there are some aspects of this subject that we can all discuss without getting into what we actually eat.

Discussing why there is a need to eat in the first place could be useful.

Or maybe that's too optimistic?

Well I thought so too. I was glad to see that Shin'Ar was probing more deeply, rather than rehashing the same arguments over and over.