Have you ever thought of why we all work hard or why people undergo difficulties to earn their livelihood? I also asked this questions several times and reached the conclusion that we all work for the same reason; to fulfill our needs especially hunger. Indeed there may be many other reasons. How rich or how poor you are doesn’t matter, we all have almost the same quantity of food. And that is the basic need for all. “The universe has the resources to satisfy our needs not our greed”. Some are rich; who enjoys or own majority of the resources and some are poor who does not own much resource. The former enjoy everything and the latter only have limited resources.
However they have a major similarity, which is a natural one.
Some may earn lakes of rupees and others may have hundreds or a few thousand of
rupees per month. But in one thing they are all equal, the amount of food they
consume – they all have almost same amount of food; but the quality and variety
may vary. Do you think that rich can consume more and poor only could have
little? No it is impossible. All are equal in front of food.
Even though we are not
self sufficient in food production, we are lucky enough to manage our needs to
a certain extent. But it is sad to say that we mismanage our resources and
destroy a good amount of resources. In India, government spoil huge amount of
food grains every year and not any appropriate steps been taken to stop this heinous
practice. On the other side number of our fellow brethren are struggling and
dying of hunger and poverty. By knowing this fact we may curse the officials
for this inhuman act. But at the same
time we should think about the resources that we - the individuals waste,
especially food materials every day. No explanation can be strong enough to
support this inhuman act.
Plenty of food material is being wasted by individuals by
improper use and they are not bothered of this act. Nowadays we could see in
hotels, parties and public functions people waste food materials without any
hesitation. It is not different in the case of homely food wastage which, also
need to be self evaluated. I hope that you also hold the same view that should
be avoided at any cost and hereafter do as possible as you could. Let me
suggest a few possible steps to manage our resources properly.
1. Prepare or order food according to the need, the money may be
yours but the resources belong to the society.
2. Recognise and identify wasting food is a bad habit and think
seriously about changing this.
3. Decide never waste food or other resources.
4. Keep a measure – ask the elders or experienced ones, how much
food should prepare for such number of persons.
5. Manage the leftover properly instead of throw it away
6. If possible produce at least certain amount of vegetables at
home.
As individuals it is our
responsibility, not to waste any resources especially food. It is neither easy
as we think nor difficult but your decision matters. Let us not waste our food
because thousands of our fellow brethren
are not fortunate to have a full stomach meals every day.