Some things make me smile and some things make me frown. I smile at those obese people who blithely tell you they ‘only eat wholesome things’ as they stuff another hamburger in with chips and soft drink to follow. I smile to myself whilst appreciating the fact that they sincerely believe what they say.
But I frown when I think of the millions who go hungry each night, many of whom never wake up again. It is a fact that we produce easily enough to feed every soul on the planet. Yet it doesn’t happen. We in the developed countries waste far more that many people ever see in terms of food.
One answer for us (over 50% of the population has a weight problem brought on by too much food and the wrong types) is to only eat what is sufficient. Leave the table when you can still eat more. Only consume what you need rather than what you crave.
Donate, food or money, to a local charity so that those who have less can at least eat.
Worth a thought.
Live well,
Ollie Lind
Waste
Waste comes in many guises
in our society.
Some see it as a crisis
and say so violently.
Society is throwaway,
that is the modern view.
Yet some seek to move away
from that point of view.
We waste our food without knowing
while millions starve in bed.
Surely that food should be going
to those soon to be dead.
We waste our trees and forests too
with scarcely backward glance.
The lungs of Earth are dying too
we are as in a trance.
Our children cannot go to work
for places in the sun.
No job as painter, docker, clerk
seems nothing can be done.
If we don’t address their plight
and use imagination.
They will surely lose the fight
our wasted generation.
