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It's myopic, though. Or perhaps not yet fully formed or juvenile. Food is so essential to how we as a species express ourselves. Does this person hate music too? What about works of fiction? Surely food is just as much a creative cultural touchstone as those are?

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You can choose to concern or not concern yourself with music, fiction, other forms of cultural expression, and how often. And people do that, according to their inclinations. But with food you do not have that choice, you have to eat, and you have to do it more or less daily. It’s an imposition rather than a free choice based on your interests.

Suppose you’d have to read (say) 50 pages of fiction each day or else you will die. Maybe that wouldn’t be so great, even if you do enjoy fiction from time to time?

You can elect to eat the same things every day if you want. There are inexpensive and really available foods that aren't incompatible with doing other stuff. You can make it pretty much automatic. Not quite as automatic as breathing, but pretty dang close.

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