The body must be fed several times a day for an entire lifetime, and cannot be persuaded to wait. Because the need repeats, everything built on it is a recurring business rather than a one-off sale — which is why food produces more durable companies than almost any other need. Hunger looks different at each age: a newborn cannot feed itself, a teenager buys its own snacks, a family cooks in volume, and an eighty-year-old may be unable to shop, chew or swallow. The same constant, four different industries.
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