It seems nearly impossible to qualify nutrition and reproduction in relation to each other, so let’s try.
Which has a higher quality, food or sex?
Nutrition
The inherent, involuntary need to feed ourselves has led us into many dark areas in our history. More importantly, it has led to our general tribal formation and our racial identities. Some argue that, in the absence of the chase for food, we might possibly have had peace on Earth. This seems far fetched, but it does bring to light some fascinating ideas and issues.
Where there is an unnecessary abundance of food due to the hunting/scavenging of said food and its storage by one tribe, there is an equal and opposite lack of it in another. This, in turn, causes a desire by the famished tribe to undo this injustice and balance the scales. Of course, once the scales have been balanced, there is no reason for the newly fed tribe to stop there, and a war may continue until the scales are opposite what they had been. Later, the cycle will repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat until we stand where we are today: many tribes, little food.
Food explains other interesting facets of our daily lives. For example, ever notice that men are more communal with their brothers and women more independent with their sisters. Consider that men hunted together. They depended on each other during the hunt or battle and learned to appreciate each other on a very close level. Brotherly love kept platoons fighting and hunting groups on course. The men who assuaged the most and those that led the best were the ones who survived. Their social prowess became almost as important as their physical power.
Opposite this, women fought each other for the food that was returned by the men to the cave. The more independent, uncaring, and cold a women was able to be in face of her sisters, prioritizing her own family above all else, the higher her chances of survival were. More importantly the higher chances her family had of surviving, those same traits being passed on and on. This can explain the general vindictivness women have over men. Ironically, men are considered the colder of the genders, but, in reality, this is never so. Especially not towards members of their own gender.
For a much more thorough investigation of food and its effects on mankind, please read The Story of B (or Ishmael or My Ishamel, though having only the read the first, I only vie for it) by Daniel Quinn.
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