Did you throw away last night’s dinner? What if you come to know, that your last night’s dinner was served to Barrack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and other world leaders? Shocking, right?
Food waste is a huge problem and keeping this in mind, the organizers of the United Nations summit in New York decided to bring this issue to the table…literally.
In an attempt to practice what they preach, the UN decided to serve lunch made of trash to the world leaders including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
While the idea of ‘landfill salad’, ‘repurposed bread’, ‘chickpea water’ and ‘cocoa husk custard’ Â doesn’t exactly sound appetizing, the chefs who cooked up the lunch managed to make it not only look, but also taste good.
The burger consisted of discarded vegetables, pulp left over from juicing, and the starchy corns which are used for feeding animals. The ‘Spent Grain Bread’ was baked using leftover mash from brewing and distilling process, and the ‘Cocoa Husk Custard’ was made using the outer shells of cocoa beans as well as the pulp from coffee cherries. And to think all that food would have been wasted and thrown away.
The US-themed menu was designed to highlight food waste and how agricultural production can contribute to the ever-worsening climate change.
Landfill salad? Eco-friendly menu at high-level working lunch on climate change included dishes made from food waste pic.twitter.com/zSJZF6iG8i
— UN Spokesperson (@UN_Spokesperson) September 27, 2015
Even, Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin toasted each other and ate their ‘trash’ lunch in peace.
This is what Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the reporters at the United Nations summit:
The vegetarian menu was was designed to emphasize that more than a third of the food produced is wasted all over the world.
It’s not possible to change the world overnight, but serving the world leaders a ‘delicious’ meal is indeed ‘food for thought’. And this is the best example of ‘Waste Not, Want Not’, don’t you think?
News Source: The Times of India