What are the ways to cherish food and prevent waste?

1. Cherish food, order meals in moderation, avoid leftovers, and reduce waste;

2. Don’t compare, take pride in saving and be ashamed of waste;

3. Eat as much as you can when eating, and do not throw away leftovers;

4. Be brave enough to stop waste when you see it, and try to reduce waste;

5. Be thrifty Propaganda agent, publicize the terrible consequences of waste to family, relatives, and friends;

6. Don’t be picky about food;

7. Order in moderation when dining in restaurants, but not picky eaters. You should show off your extravagance, be a little messy, and pack endless meals to take home;

8. Actively supervise your relatives and friends around you, and stop the waste of food in a timely manner.

So, how to save food? In the author's opinion, if you want to find a way to save food, you must first find the node where food is most wasted.

From the current point of view, there are four main places where food is wasted:

First, canteens of various types of agencies at all levels, schools and state-owned enterprises. Because these government agencies and state-owned enterprise canteens are welfare canteens, diners can pay a symbolic fee of one yuan or a few yuan to choose from more than a dozen or dozens of kinds of meals and dishes, and throw away the ones that don’t suit their taste after one bite. Lose. That's not all. The key is that after these people finished eating, the remaining food, no matter how much, went into the swill bucket. Although the university canteen is not a welfare canteen, it is still a waste of money. The reason is that college students don’t know that their parents’ hard-earned money is hard-earned. The person in charge of a canteen at a university in Beijing said that the canteen consumes hundreds of kilograms of grain and hundreds of kilograms of vegetables every day, but more than one-fifth of the food is poured into the bucket every day, and tens of thousands of kilograms of grain and vegetables are wasted every year. , and these are enough to feed dozens of people for a whole year. This is just the waste of one canteen in one university. If we add in the collective canteens of various schools and units across the country, it is estimated that at least food that can feed 30 million people for a year is thrown away every year. I think everyone who has eaten in an agency canteen is aware of this waste. This phenomenon rarely happens at the family dinner table.

Second, drinking alcohol is prohibited. Wine is the essence of food. This is self-evident. With the improvement of living conditions, drinking has become an indispensable medium in people's daily life, especially in social interaction. Every province, every county, and even many towns and villages has brewing factories or workshops. As the saying goes, "One pound of grain equals seven pounds of wine." This is the amount of grain consumed for high-end liquor. Generally, 5 pounds of grain is consumed for liquor and 1.5 pounds of rice is consumed for rice wine. Currently, there are nearly 38,000 liquor production companies in the country. According to 2009 statistics, the annual liquor output reached 7.0693 million tons. Based on this calculation, liquor alone consumes 50 billion kilograms of grain every year, equivalent to one-tenth of my country's total annual grain production; the country's annual beer production is 40 million tons, and barley malt alone requires nearly 20 million tons. . If drinking and brewing were prohibited, at least these grains would be saved. This is a clear account. As for banning drinking, its contribution to society is even greater.

Third, it is prohibited to keep pets such as dogs and cats. Dogs and cats are living creatures and must consume food. Not to mention that some people spend more on their dogs than their parents. Under normal circumstances, an adult dog consumes no less food than an adult. The "2018 China Pet Industry White Paper" shows that in 2018, there were 91.5 million cats and dogs in the country, including 50.85 million dogs and 40.65 million cats. This number is close to 100 million. In other words, our Chinese population is 1.4 billion, and every 15 families have a pet! It is conceivable that pet dogs consume a lot of food every year. Of course, what is even more disgusting is that the proliferation of pet dogs in public places urinates and urinates everywhere, the barking of dogs in buildings seriously disturbs the people, and they often bite people, etc. The Chinese people have been plagued by dogs for a long time