Commentary for Bava Metzia 191:4

איפוך אנא מסתברא שאלה עדיפא משום דקא מייתי לה לרשותיה

— Even so, [the responsibility imposed by] borrowing is greater, since he thereby becomes responsible for his food.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The point of the discussion is this. It is evident that Scripture remits liability when the owner is in the bailee's service. Hence the question is, what actually imposes that liability which is to be remitted? And the Talmud answers that it is the act borrowing, rather than injury or death, which imposes it, since borrowing certainly imposes another liability, viz., that of food. ');">³</span>

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