The wedding season has finally arrived. And while a lot of things have changed about weddings, like reduced number of guests and mandatory wearing of masks, the one thing that remains unchanged is food wastage.
A tremendous amount of food is wasted every year, thanks to ‘big fat Indian weddings’. According to an earlier report by The New Indian Express, 10-20% of the food served at weddings in India goes to waste. So much so that even before the pandemic began, the Supreme Court was contemplating limiting the number of guests to check food wastage at weddings, reports Hindustan Times.
While there are organisations who come forward to collect excess food from weddings and distribute it to the poor, there are many people who tend to take way more food than they can eat and end up wasting it. Hence, since the wedding season is here, people online are requesting people not to waste food at weddings and are condemning those who do. Many also posted ways in which food wastage can be curbed in gatherings. Have a look:
Everyone wants change …
But sadly, nobody wants to change !!It is really shocking that our habit to waste food in marriages is still intact despite knowing that in India lot of people die due to hunger.
Share Some Solid Suggestion …😐 pic.twitter.com/gIxCuipSDb
— R.K. (@ipo_mantra) November 29, 2020
IAS Officer Awanish Sharan wrote, “The daughter’s father spends his entire life, strangling his happiness, accumulating money so that he can marry his daughter with great pomp. Please do not leave food behind in this way nor should anyone leave it. Take as much food on the plate as you can eat.”
बेटी का पिता अपनी पूरी ज़िंदगी दिन रात मेहनत करके, अपनी खुशियों का गला घोंट कर, थोड़े थोड़े पैसे जमा करता है, ताकि अपनी बिटिया का विवाह बड़े ही धूमधाम से कर सके.
कृपया इस तरह से खाने को जूठा न छोड़े और न ही किसी को छोड़ने दें. उतना ही खाना प्लेट में लें जितना आप खा सकें.
(साभार) pic.twitter.com/F7YkiTl7np— Awanish Sharan (@AwanishSharan) November 25, 2020
When me and my friends go in wedding, we share a single plate between 2 friends. so that we can avoid wastage of food and on the other hand we also save the cost per plate of a person 😁
— Aman kori (@_Amankori) November 29, 2020
It’s need awareness
Take as much as yours needs or you can eat
Rather than just to so off
And if the food left in marriage hall or any occasion then call the nearby orphanage or slumb nearby and distribute it rather than throwing it— ayusmita (@IandUmakesusone) November 29, 2020
This has to be inculcated at education to children because laws don’t help. It’s sad to see food being wasted but then during marriages or parties people show their hoarding mentality by piling up their plates and not finishing the food in it. What a shame
— Rohitt Malhotra रोहित मल्होत्रा (@rohit121171) November 30, 2020
This is not only marriage, it’s everywhere.. Even in restaurant, Office Canteens ppl waste food that too after paying amount and when ppl get free food, u can imagine. And this will not change by putting fine or so, It’s d mindset which needs to be changed & it takes A Generation
— Anashku (@nammabharata) November 29, 2020
1. Sit down service. People sit down & food is served.(like in Gurudwara)
2. Reduce variety of food items. Sometimes there are too many dishes
3. People asked to put plates where there is a Signboard ‘DONT Waste Food’
4. Small plates
5. Teach Children to tell guests not to waste— Ashish (@ashishmonga76) November 29, 2020
This should be fixed at the source. The person organizing the function should not prepare such an elaborate meal. Keep it simple. Nobody would waste. People think if the meal is grand, it says volumes about their status. This should change.
— Seetharaman Srinivasan (@NiftyPanther) November 30, 2020
Please everyone. 🙏
Respect what you are getting. Many use to sleep without a single bite. https://t.co/H6N7KTBCCP— Ashish Tiwari (@ashish_tiwari94) November 26, 2020
Agree. If you cannot finish what you take, then don’t take it. Don’t waste. It’s food which many cannot even afford to look at. https://t.co/2g8PJjwu9K
— Brig Rakesh Chhibber (@Chhibber58) November 26, 2020
Take as much you can eat and eat as much you have taken. https://t.co/nBlm76MVtx
— M.A.NAJEEB FAROOQنجیب فاروق (@najibfarooq) November 27, 2020
Once the food is on the plate and isn’t eaten, it cannot be donated and ends up getting wasted. We need to be conscious and keep our privilege in check when it comes to food because much of the country suffers from hunger.