When I wanted to loosen up from work, I always had an attribute of taking a little walk down my office and I was flabbergasted to see the overwhelming restaurants located in the hustle and bustle. Most of us living today are foodie people with various tastes but it does not mean you get the right set of circumstances to munch more just because it’s “World Food Day”. There is certainly a disquiet to be raised for food, the need for food, and the quality of food.

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

Whilst there are millions suffering without food living in underdeveloped nations due to which people die every year, we see the public wasting food. So, the intensity of this day is that we think twice for those who are in poverty and give a helping hand because every human being living on this planet deserves the right to food. My wife and I have this habit of wrapping up leftovers so that we take them back home and consume them or we give them to our security downstairs or to some cleaners.

Food waste is not good for anyone in any way – to the economy, to the environment, or for our own ethical justification. So if things are going wrong, we 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 frenzied display of prosperity. When we arrange any gathering, occasion, get-together, or function it’s always best that we give a call to any charitable organisation and make arrangements to donate the surplus food, maintaining the utmost level of decency, or depute someone to donate food to the underprivileged.

Mathew Litty,
Dubai