He frowns, his attention caught. "You have a higher than average food requirement?" There must be a reason for that, or perhaps it's only a personal quirk. "Then you are not eating enough to satiate you. This is... unfortunate."

Daneel doesn't really know what the best solution is. If one individual has a higher-than-normal need for food -- say, for example, half again as much -- then what is the fair thing to do? Force that one person to go hungry? Take a share from everyone else so that they do not? Neither is a good situation.

"I have good hopes for the gardens." He has to. He doesn't like the alternative. "In the meantime, are you suffering from a lack of food?"