Generally speaking, food waste is a major problem that every day we are
facing it. But people take it as neglected habitual patterns because some people
haven't experienced it yet. Although people are little aware that some parts of
the world are starving every day and finding hard to put a single particle of food in
their mouth. To those who are facing the situation what can people do at their best?
By looking at the way people waste the food is a matter of questioning ones
attitude towards the food. The irony is people do waste a lot of food after
having known the scarcity of the food.
Certainly more people wanted to waste food by misusing and mistreating the
food. For various reason people buy food items and let it get decayed. The rate
of consumption is more because people waste more and people look for more food
items. The result from throwing away a food brings a larger impact of food
waste to the world.
Despite the increased availability of healthy food and our greater knowledge
of what makes a healthier diet, people are still looking for easy fast foods. The
dietary habits that people practice need to get change, because more food waste
is from consuming the similar food items. If we look at the Bhutanese way of habits
in preparing curry, Emadatsi (chilies) or Kewadatsi (potatoes) is must. We end
getting fed up with same curry. Well prepared curry is put in the dustbin and what
thought do people put after that? This may be attributable to the food shortage
and major food waste in Bhutan.
It is certainly true that food shortage comes from food waste. Everybody is
talking about the climate change and getting prepared for it. Simplest and
easiest way that we could do is reducing the food waste. If we control the food
waste it is going to address the changing climate and of agriculture practices.
As a result food supply will be sufficient for all the people.
Why do we have to concern when there are food waste? There is evidence to suggest that going by the
current consumption of food in some developed countries, they do consume
double and triple the amounts that developing and poor countries consumes. As a
result food waste becoming the major issues and affects the poorer countries
and developing nations.
What can we do as an individual to reduce food waste? As an individual we should know the right
amount of food one can eat, eating should be meant for ones living. If we eat
and live well by the power of food, we should be rejoicing at the energy that
food give to us. Eat what you want to eat not what other does eat. Food waste
can be reduced until and unless we change the attitude towards the food, we
should be respecting the single particles of food.
In addition we simply don’t waste food, food wrappers and plastics are major
problem for us, and how do we manage this in name of food waste. People often waste food to satisfy their greed.
People have the habits of keeping the provisions for the next month, year,
winter or summer. In keeping those food provisions it results in more food
waste.
Indeed, food shortage can be preventable in multiple ways. One way could be
adopting the “emptying the plates policy”. If people throw away particles of
food today and similar on tomorrow, it is going to piles up like a mountain.
Perhaps people talk about impacting globally, so they should work out from
the local roots like practicing the best possible ways of food matters. Managing food waste is
a lifelong lesson everybody should know because food is a basic need for
survival. People should look for sustaining the food supplies too.
Are we aware of the food waste so far? In our traditions, we have a saying
that if we don’t care food, one day food is going to leave us. In this old
saying tradition there is a strong message in it. We have to keep the certain
discipline in heart. Sit properly and chew the food and never fail to enjoy every bit. Eat differently and
differing food items. Eat for the healthy mind and body. And remember the struggles
that one takes to grow the single food particles in the world.
To sum up reducing food waste is a challenge but if people really want to
accept the problem and do their best to reduce food waste people can do it by simply sitting and eating well what is placed on the plate. If there
is no waste no food problem will ever come to being. So shall the world would
be sufficient to feed all the hungers and hunters.
Before people throw away a single particles of food people need to think thousand times.
Nyima Kuendrel
From Lock and Key diary.
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