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Is "food" a social construct? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Hear me out. There's nothing innate to an object that makes it "food". It's an attribute we give to certain things that meet certain qualities, i.e. being digestible, nutritious, perhaps tasty or satisfying in some way, etc. We could really ingest just about anything, but we call the stuff that's edible "food". Does that make it a social construct?

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[–] Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm just waiting for some dipshit to wander in here and talk about how we need to "examine the relationship" with food and start calling it something like "people fuel" or some other bullshit term.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have never once at any point inserted a "should" into this conversation, besides maybe like "you shouldn't be a dick".

is that what's so scary to you? that thinking leads to shoulding? take your fear out elsewhere please

[–] Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 3 months ago

Did you wave goodbye to the handle as you flew off of it?