What’s on your plate?
There are big and small wars to be fought to ensure that corrupt food brands are wiped off from the market. Even when they have been proved unsafe for human consumption, it won’t be surprising to see them dominating the retail shelves. I myself have felt helpless many times to see these names stubbornly sticking on to the market. The only war I can wage is by making sure I would never buy any of their products, however pressing a situation may be. When it comes to food, we don’t have to give anyone a second chance; especially when we know they are looting our health for their profit.
Similar is the case with many restaurant chains. Like phoenix birds they come back to life no matter how many times they are sealed for stale food. Recently I heard on the radio a new thought wherein a customer can check the kitchen of any rest aurant. This thought obviously was not welcomed by the certain establishments. The idea got crushed even before it could be implemented.
Serving stale food has become the norm and even if you find something unexpected in your food, it would only be unapologetically or otherwise replaced by your waiter. A piece of hair or a few dead insects buried within your food doesn’t cause the havoc it once used to. I have even wondered if the dim lights in certain restaurants are a method of hiding these flaws in food.
I feel, we, as consumers have the right to know from where the fish in our special fish curry came from. We have the right to make sure that the chicken in the curry did not die of a flu. We have the right to know every detail about the food we order because if it is stale or if it has chemicals, we are the only ones who are going to suffer. The huge price tags we paid for the food would be nothing when compared to the cost it has on our health.