Eating
by John Musico
Eating is so routine that you never stop to think
about what eating really is. Molecules form any variety of tangible conglomerates, including eatable ones: food. Your body then breaks them down again into the food’s component parts, and then reassembles them into constructs of choice. A steak replaces a broken fingernail etc. Anything, not digestible: is food for the bacteria that live in harmony in your guts, and they do the same thing. Living creatures are transformation factories, using food as their substrate and reforming it into a useful form. Food itself in its unadulterated form is totally useless.
John, you may *say* the bacteria live in harmony in my gut, but my gut begs to differ. And after this story, I’ll never look at my fingernail clippings the same way!