Its irrelevant for me either way, I have his language from my little snacking at the outpost muhahaha

And their definition of food is any biological object, though they have a preference for sentient beings, as they love to acquire knowledge in addition to the actual mass it's self. So to be fair on duck, S'Ark didn't go "We want some of your food to eat", they went "We want some of your people to eat" xD