How did food evolve?

The other day I was ringing up a customer, a middle aged man. He was with a teenager, probably around 17 or 18 years old, and male.I could tell they were tourists by the clothes they were wearing, and probably from a fairly metropolitan area.At some point the teenage spotted the cluster tomatoes I was weighing on the scale: The kid said "What are those?"I answered, "Tomatoes.""Really?" he said, somewhat surprised and dubious."Yes", I said, "That's how they grow, on vines."I then blurted out, "Haven't you ever seen a tomato plant? Wow, somebody needs to visit a garden."It's scary what people don't know.

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I asked how organisms developed this ability. I'm also not going to read the entire ATP article!

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Look, it seems to me that you are asking college-level Biochemistry questions but don't have the educational background to be able to interpret or absorb the answers.If you aren't willing to put in the small effort it would require to read something as short and relatively basic as a Wikipedia article then it appears that you are not interested in learning what you need to know in order to have a basis for understanding the answers to the questions you pose.

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Mutation generally causes cancer and death.

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Every single person on the planet is born, on average, with several mutations, just through copy errors.I have one.Specifically, I have a mutation in my MSX1 gene, such that my lower wisdom teeth never developed.It carries no cancer or death risk, thankfully.

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Thought, emotions, consciousness, and personality are beyond the physical world.

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If this is true, why then, when people have strokes or are in accidents that damage certain parts of theie brains, do we observe that the way they think changes, their emotions are altered, their consciousness is affected, and their personality changes?If such things are "beyond the physical world", why are scientists able to predict which changes will be observed as a result of damage to specific areas of the brain?

Oh yes, I do consider myself lucky that I have missing wisdom teeth!OTOH, I was also born with a rather severe allergy to bee stings, discovered in my 6th year when I was stung by a honey bee and was rushed to the emergency room after going into anaphylactic shock. I had to get an allergy shot a week for a whole year when I was about 7. That's a lot of shots! I still don't have normal reactions to bee stings to this day, but they are not life-threatening anymore.It's too bad that Buzsaw wasn't around to give me herbs to save my life back then, eh? I'm sure that his dietary reccomendations would have been just as effective as the shots of adrenaline they gave me at keeping my heart going.Stupid conventional medicine, giving me all those allergy shots to reduce my body's overreaction to bee venom so my liklihood of dying from anaphylactic shock is much less.(grumble, grumble...)