Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• aleonem@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t using them as food just be using them as fuel anyways? The only difference is what you’re going to fuel with them.

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  • experbia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    came to say this. food is fuel, we are merely labyrinthine biological furnaces that chemically incinerates whatever unfortunate matter may enter us. the fuel’s affluence is not typically relevant, but I’m a little out of touch on the science, I might be wrong.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not science just precise language. Basically food is a distinct concept because it contains both energy and material to be used by the system. The word for such a mix is “food”.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Food is a combination of fuel and building material

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