"There Are Children Going To Bed Hungry In India"

FTLComm - Tisdale - Thursday, September 6, 2001

As a child growing up there were things that were bad that you were not suppose to do but then there were things that were "really bad" that were considered acts of an unspeakable, unpardonable magnitude. Wasting food was considered as an obsenity one of those "really bad" things and my parents who grew up in the thirties and their parent who knew even worse times were completely unaccepting of anyone caught doing such a thing. It was an abomination. The lessons of childhood stick with you and no doubt we pass those same attitudes on to our children. I am one of those people who cleans up their plate and look with distain and contempt on those who do not. As time and waist size have increased through time, I have even tried to leave food on my plate at a restaurant, but alas, it is "wrong". I guess that is why I find it so offensive to drive around this and other communities and see apples and crab apples on the ground, wasted and not being picked or preserved. I know how offended my mother would be were she to see such things and the horror my grandmothers would have expressed at such a sight as that above. The bounty of this earth was not created to be wasted but to be used and utilised, without exception.