Waste of food – a National Loss
Food is one of the three basic necessities of mankind. Food, clothing and shelter is the yardstick to determine the standard of living of a person. For survival, we all need good food to eat, decent clothes and a safe house.
Particularly, in the case of food, we have to take extra care and should not waste the same. It is a perishable commodity and it cannot be retrieved / re used unlike other basic necessities.
The food that we eat comes from the hard work of another person who would have struggled to grow crop.
The farmer, transporter, market man and finally, my parents would have made effort to provide food to me.
If I waste food in plate, it means that I have disrespected the efforts of all these persons. No doubt, we have paid for the food. It is only for the services rendered and not a measure of the efforts of all these people.
I was told that if you leave food served in Hotels at Germany, you will be fined for the same!! It looks amusing to hear such thing. It might be necessary if we do not understand the value of food we leave in the plates. It could well be eaten by another human being who is starving for food.
It is scientifically said, that the energy can neither be created nor destroyed. But when we waste food, it means that we are wasting the energies spent by others in production of food articles. We need to value the efforts for preparing food and hence should not waste food.
When we go to functions, we can avoid excessive plateful of food, which we cannot eat. If something is left, we can always share it with others who need it.
Let us all decide to take care not to waste food. Waste of food also means that we have wasted the resources of nature. These resources belong to the Nation and therefore, it is a loss to our own Nation.
Food is one of the three basic necessities of mankind. Food, clothing and shelter is the yardstick to determine the standard of living of a person. For survival, we all need good food to eat, decent clothes and a safe house.
Particularly, in the case of food, we have to take extra care and should not waste the same. It is a perishable commodity and it cannot be retrieved / re used unlike other basic necessities.
The food that we eat comes from the hard work of another person who would have struggled to grow crop.
The farmer, transporter, market man and finally, my parents would have made effort to provide food to me.
If I waste food in plate, it means that I have disrespected the efforts of all these persons. No doubt, we have paid for the food. It is only for the services rendered and not a measure of the efforts of all these people.
I was told that if you leave food served in Hotels at Germany, you will be fined for the same!! It looks amusing to hear such thing. It might be necessary if we do not understand the value of food we leave in the plates. It could well be eaten by another human being who is starving for food.
It is scientifically said, that the energy can neither be created nor destroyed. But when we waste food, it means that we are wasting the energies spent by others in production of food articles. We need to value the efforts for preparing food and hence should not waste food.
When we go to functions, we can avoid excessive plateful of food, which we cannot eat. If something is left, we can always share it with others who need it.
Let us all decide to take care not to waste food. Waste of food also means that we have wasted the resources of nature. These resources belong to the Nation and therefore, it is a loss to our own Nation.
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