FOOD SHORTAGE vs FOOD WASTAGE
Preface:
I heard in BBC Radio one day morning that Somalia is suffering with acute food shortage. There was an interview with an unknown woman of Somalia village that she used to take maize powder and some times she used to take Animal Feed in order to subside the hunger. This is a horrific situation. Also, she told that when she eat animal feed, she used to feel burning sensation inside the stomach. Just think about others who are blessed with food and wasting food everyday without thinking of their brothers and sisters in other part of world. I am seeing here everyday near to a restaurant that plenty of food is wasted. How can we justify this to world, our conscious, ultimately GOD.
Oh God, why we are wasting food?
Millions are longing for grains even.
Teach children not to waste food
Take only whatever required
Preaching is very easy here
But implementing is so difficult
My Dad taught me not to waste any food
Since food is considered as God’s gift
Thank God for giving us food everyday
Inculcate a culture not to waste food
Water as well since both are going to be
In acute scarcity and everybody’ll die for it
Now did I make you to think
About your own deed while eating
If so, I am satisfied and my purpose
Of writing this is served
Oh God, put seed on this to everybody’s mind
Let them not spill water and waste food
Teach everybody in dinner party
Not to waste water and food.
Copyright© Prasad Krishna 2008
