“To eat is to appropriate by destruction.”
— Jean Paul Sartre
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Simplified Meaning:
When we eat, we take something, like a plant or an animal, and break it down for our own use. Imagine eating an apple: you bite into it, chew it up, and your body turns it into energy and nutrients. The apple gets destroyed in the process, but you gain the benefits. This idea can be seen in nature; for example, when a lion hunts and eats a deer, the deer is destroyed but the lion gets the energy it needs to survive. In our daily lives, this reminds us that getting something often involves changing or consuming other things. This can be applied to think more carefully about what we consume and how it affects the world around us.
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