By Ferdinand Dimadura
On one hand, it seems the video reminds us of the need to consume what we need and not to waste morsels or for some people, chunks of food. However, as per discussion of the video in class, some of you did mention about the need to waste food so that people struggling in poverty and hunger have access to unfinished food wasted by the diners of the restaurant as shown in the movie. At the surface, it seems a valid argument, yet do these poor people deserve to eat leftover food meant for disposal?
A better solution would be establishment of organisations with the objective of feeding these people. Food for the Poor, Inc, is one ecumenical Christian non-profit organisation to provide food, medicine, and shelter, among other services, to poor people in Latin America and and the Caribbean. Red cross is yet another humanitarian organisation concerned with feeding the poor around the world. They have done so in war-raging Iraq, Tsunami-attached Aceh, even the impoverished but nuclear-ambitious hermit 'republic' of North Korea.
The efforts by these organisations are more far-reaching and efficacious in realising their goals, than what your peer has proposed earlier.
In a nut shell, the next time you could not finish your chicken drumstick on your porcelain plate, what will you do?
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