Spread the Joy!
Merry Christmas to you!
H _ M
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After the roller coaster of 2016, the time has finally come to kick back, hug a bit, laugh a lot and spread the joy as you celebrate a well deserved holiday this Christmas.
It has been a somewhat interesting 12 months and I, for one, can't wait to forget about the uncertainties, forget about work, stress and just relax and have fun tomorrow. Except for the fear of a game of charades is getting close...
We'll have music, some gifts and a heck of a lot of food. Something we shouldn't take for granted.
According to 'Love Food Hate Waste,' the UK wastes around 15 million tonnes of food every year with about 7 million tonnes of food and drink coming from our homes every year.
Yes, there's waste in the shops. Yes manufactures throw good foodstuffs in the bin but, most of it comes from us.
The website also says that the average household chucks £60 worth of food in the bin every month - and the worst part of it? This could have been avoided. Food either past it's sell-by or even still edible is thrown out, yet it could have been eaten earlier.
The resources; fuel, land, labour, transport, all come to nothing and plays havoc with our global economy as well as the environment.
The food currently wasted in Europe could feed 200 million people. (FAO, 2013) - more than the population of Nigeria.
In a world where we live amongst those people, whom we only encounter through the devastating adverts which appeal for our sympathy through TV and media campaigns. These living, screaming humans are almost unrecognisable as people. And we may shed a tear and donate a bit of money, yet still another week will pass and we'll squander some hundred pounds for our family, whom we must look after first, without any other fleeting thought for the rest of the world's people. They are hurting from the inside out, these people, our wider family. How do we justify this?
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We can't just follow the status quo any more. As I've gotton older, I've realised that our whole way of living is governed by the lives of people around us. As a child you obey the authority of your parents, teachers - anyone who has power over you. But now, as an adult, you govern yourself but still look for a guiding hand. Though invisible, these encounter us daily. Making us conform. Making us obey to society's pressures and unwritten regulations. "Don't talk." "Laugh." "Go to sleep." "Eat this, not that."
"Throw it away."
Whilst I hope you really think about your food, where it comes from, the cost, your waste etc. this Christmas, I challenge you all to just take a few more moments to think about where your food goes afterwards and that you reduce your food waste. The more the merrier! I leave this post for you to reflect upon over the Christmas break and please, think of those who have always been less fortunate than us and perhaps, through you, can have a bit of hope in 2017.
I wish you all a...
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