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What are the disadvantages of wasting food

Saving food is honorable, wasting food is shameful" is a familiar slogan, but from the slogan to action, the distance between is very long. Shame culture is one of the important contents of China's traditional culture, shame is the bottom line of traditional morality, the foundation, from the Confucius "line their own shame", Mencius's "shame, righteousness," "people can not be shameless, no shame, no shame, no shame. Shame is carried forward", to Zhu Zi's "Shame, I have inherent shame. If you have it in the sages, lost in the beasts, so the system is very big", have emphasized the sense of shame in people, the importance of behavior.

Shameless people are despised and reviled. In the poor years, in the eyes of the public, the behavior of wasting food is not only shameful, and even a kind of sin, the children at that time, if this action, most of them will be reprimanded by the parents and even chastisement. Nowadays, life is rich, material abundance, food abundance, people will not be wasted food and hungry, blamed, so many people will be on food and other goods, resources, wasteful behavior does not think, insensitive. There is no passers-by, "everyone shouting" social environment, the loss of shame, waste up to the heart of the peace of mind.

"The sky is fertile sometimes, the earth is limited to produce wealth. Compared to nature, human beings are really small, each grain of food behind the inconspicuous is the gift of nature to us, is the sweat of the laboring people. Food is a matter of national livelihood, is an important cornerstone of national security, practice economy, against waste is not only the value of social resources, but also respect for the labor of others.

In our daily lives, when we invite our guests and friends to dinner, we can't afford to order dishes, but we should order according to the number of people and their preferences, and if we have leftovers, we should pack them up and take them with us, which is thrifty and not a loss of face. "Eat broadcast", face the camera overeating, not only waste of food, but also guide fans wrong diet. Family purchasing, some families like to buy more inexpensive dishes, etc., the result of stockpiling too much, consumption is not complete, rot or expiration date will have to be thrown away, but also cause waste. Rational consumption, stop in moderation, abandon the love of face, talk about these bad habits, in order to drive the people around the bowl clean, plate clean, pot clean. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the services you need.

The thrift is not suffering, but let us cherish the limited resources. Don't wait until you are hungry, money can't buy food, only to remember the preciousness of food, know the reverence for heaven and earth and nature. There is no rule without a rule. The food law clearly stipulates the provisions of saving food and opposing waste, and uses legal means to restrain and rectify the behavior of wasting food and establish a long-term mechanism. Through the form of legislation, so that the practice of thrift is put into practice. Diligence and thrift, there has not been no rise; arrogance and luxury burnout, there has not been no defeat. From today onwards, cherish every grain of food, is a virtue, is reverence, is the embodiment of social civilization.