“ANNAM PARABRAHMASWAROOPAM,” says our Indian philosophy. This translates to “food is God”. Whether we eat to live or we live to eat : the two words are inseparable. Undoubtedly preserving food means preserving life. Many times we never realized, that how much food we are wasting. If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten by people. No one is going to hang us for wasting food. But does it mean that we have a right to misuse the most expensive gift of god? Food is fuel to life – if there is no food, life is just a mere imagination.
After implementing a waste display system in all the ways to cafeteria or canteen or hotels people will come to know that everyday how much food is being wasted by such a small amount of people who ate in this cafeteria. And this will remind them the common wastage done by all the people which leads to the empty stomach of uncountable people. This will certainly waken their human feelings and will reduce the wastage they made. After all we as human beings have a unique quality of sentiments which attaches us with all living and nonliving beings of the universe.
For calculating the amount of the total wastage,
The total food wasted is weighed.
An estimate of food consumed by an average person is considered.
The total food wasted divided by the average food consumption of a person gives the number of people that could have been fed with it.
We as humans are enough sensitive to the outer world but some times we need a starter, a reminder to do something. Same happens with us everyday. We know that these many people are living under poverty line, these many people die due to the lack of food, these many people are not eating hygienic food, still when we waste food, all these things may have gone to the unconscious mind and we unintentionally waste the food, which could be a life to one person. And here we need a reminder that will remind us that food is life and we have to use it with care. Wastage of food means hurting the life of someone else.
So let’s take a pledge that, we are not going to waste food in any of the circumstance. Amen.
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