[RE] Not Cool To Waste Food

I stumbled across a quote, on Julie Le's post, that is similar to what my parents tell me everyday when I eat... literally:

"I grew up in a family where wasting food was not okay."

My family is always reminding me not to waste any food. The only way it is going in the trash can is if it is either overdue or not edible (i.e. fish and chicken bones). I also agree that no one should be wasting food. Wasting food is like wasting hard-earned money. The only way you can get food is by buying it, and the only way we can earn money is through a job, which is becoming more difficult to get and/or keep because of today's economy. So we are actually really lucky to be living in a home where we have food at least twice a day. There are people who are unlucky and are dying because they don't even have a grain of rice to eat.

We should also be really grateful for the food as well because it does not magically appear from thin air. There are people who grow the food by hand, with the help of machines, which is a tough job. So wasting food is like saying that you don't really care about how hard those farmers and the people who earn money to buy the food (i.e. parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, even yourself) worked, so that you could eat in order to live or just to satisfy your urge to eat. So we should all show some respect by not wasting food.

I'm not saying that you should always force yourself to finish the food even if you are really full. There are ways to avoid that. You can give your food to someone else, or you can save it for later. All I'm trying to say is that it is definitely not okay to waste food, especially since it is going to become harder to get food with the economy going down.