Too much food is being wasted at SRU campus dining halls
By Chamathka Udumalagala
Issue date: 10/23/09 Section: Opinion
Many SRU students attended Empty Bowls on Monday, Oct. 5-a fundraising project to raise awareness about hunger.
The question that went through my mind is: Although we have our own bowl from Empty Bowls, do we really think for a second time about food waste?
Boozel Dining Center is the best example on-campus of people wasting food.
With the number of people working at Boozel, it wasn't hard for me to converse with several student employees who work in the dish room. What they shared was shocking.
"The first day I went to work at Boozel dish room, it was shocking," one student employee said. "I saw plate after plate coming to be cleaned, some with a huge amount of food leftover and some seemingly untouched."
The hope of those who organized Empty Bowls was to address the issue of food waste, hunger awareness and how we should do our part by trying not to waste food.
It's not a falsehood when your mom told you, "Make sure your plate is clean and remember the millions of children starving out there."
The number of people going hungry to bed each day is increasing with the global economic crisis, high unemployment rates and, hence, the increasing poverty rate.
We're privileged to be able to waste, but think a little.
Isn't it better to take what you can eat and contribute to saving food at least that way?
Don't waste food, because hunger is real!
The question that went through my mind is: Although we have our own bowl from Empty Bowls, do we really think for a second time about food waste?
Boozel Dining Center is the best example on-campus of people wasting food.
With the number of people working at Boozel, it wasn't hard for me to converse with several student employees who work in the dish room. What they shared was shocking.
"The first day I went to work at Boozel dish room, it was shocking," one student employee said. "I saw plate after plate coming to be cleaned, some with a huge amount of food leftover and some seemingly untouched."
The hope of those who organized Empty Bowls was to address the issue of food waste, hunger awareness and how we should do our part by trying not to waste food.
It's not a falsehood when your mom told you, "Make sure your plate is clean and remember the millions of children starving out there."
The number of people going hungry to bed each day is increasing with the global economic crisis, high unemployment rates and, hence, the increasing poverty rate.
We're privileged to be able to waste, but think a little.
Isn't it better to take what you can eat and contribute to saving food at least that way?
Don't waste food, because hunger is real!
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Bob
posted 10/23/09 @ 9:05 PM EST
I blame the poor choices of food. They make soups like Cream of Cauliflower, how many people do you know that like a soup like that? I do not know many. (Continued…)
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