The act of eating is a service.

[Diana]

There are so many overlays of negative-influenced thought regarding the simple sacred act of eating. So I think we can get confused and lose the simplicity, and wholesomeness of the ritual of eating.

The act of eating may be simple, but the act of acquiring food is far from simple (unless one is living on fruit).

Unfortunately this is true. We are not living 300 years ago in an indigenous culture. Modern-day eating involves the getting of food from questionable sources, unless a family/individual grows all their own food.

Shemaya's above sentiment regarding the wholesomeness and simplicity of eating is nice, but the reality is that eating involves more than that today. The question is: how aware does a person want to be, and how responsible, with the choices made for food.