WORLD FOOD DAY

Most of us are food lovers with various tastes but it does not mean you get an opportunity to eat more just because it’s “World Food Day.”

There is certainly an alarm to be raised for food, the need for food, and the quality of food.

When I cite the quality of food, we do lack the real meaning as today we get food that is all filled and stuffed with oil that leads to unhealthy eating. Even if the food materials are great, making food with contaminated water making it nonedible is meaningless.

Whilst there are millions suffering without food living in underdeveloped nations due to which people die every year, we see so many people wasting food. So, the message this day is to spare a thought for those who are in poverty and lend a helping hand because every human being living on this planet deserves the right to eat.

Wasting food is not good for anyone in any way – for the economy, the environment, or our own ethical justification. So, if things are going wrong, we have to put them on the right track. Due to the plenty we have, thanks to our industrial civilisation, food is being floundered as a sign of our wealth, never mind it being wasted in this frenzy display of prosperity.

Most kids these days get picky with their food and throw most of it out. Parents these days don’t seem to care when their kids throw away most of their food away or leave them on their plates and eat junk food instead.

If we stop and think for a minute, we will realise all the people in the world who don’t have enough to eat are dying and will probably realise all the food they’re wasting. Maybe people will stop eating so much junk food and start to eat letover food or give it to someone who needs it or doesn’t have enough to eat.

The basic concept of World Food Day is to fight against hunger and poverty and it’s the duty of every individual to contribute. We are not farmers but we can contribute by increasing awareness, decreasing wastage, and judicious utilisation of food.

Mathew Litty Dubai