I have read a passage earlier this morning talking about wastage, more specifically, food wasting. An interesting thought was mentioned that are we wasting our food if we force ourselves to eat the remaining.
As many of us was taught not to waste food, 'think about the people suffering from starvation', but in the reality, eating the remainings will never help people who suffer from starvation.
Moreover, food is to maintain our life by providing nutrition which will be converted to energy for our daily activities through respiration.
Since things become more valuable when needed, the writer end up saying we should wait until we are hungry before we continue eating, rather than forcing ourselves to eat the remaining. This way we will be using resources at its most value.
I do agree, but food become less tasty when time passes, isn't enjoying eating our ultimate goal?
Do you mean that we should force ourselves to eat the remaining, you may ask.
Yes, and no.
Indeed, we should not 'waste' food by forcing ourselves to eat because of concerning the people who are suffering from starvation.
However, we should force ourselves to eat the remaining because food wastage is polluting our environment. Even though you decided to keep the food until you are hungry seems wise, but you are risking your health upon a believe, 'There are people starving any moment'.
Besides, forcing ourselves to eat will still be digested and absorbed into our body at the end, they will be converted to energy which no one can possibly say it will be wasted.
In fact, helping people suffering from starvation is another story comparing with you valuing your meal. If you really are a kind person and concern about people who needs help, you should help them directly through donation or in person rather than just treasuring what you have.
You are just lying to yourself by feeling better after using up resources at its most value.
You are just lying to yourself by believing that you contributed to farmers or fishers after finishing a meal completely.
You are just lying to yourself that you are valuing animals' life by eating what they provided.
Don't eat for others, eat for yourself, because you know many have contributed to your meal and you should not possess a noble feeling by giving credit to their contributions