Bernama today published an infographic showing how much food Malaysians throw away, in particular during this holy month of Ramadan and it is appalling. That’s crazy! 40,000 ton metric of food leftovers thrown by houses in KL in Ramadan?
Come on folks, we can do better than that and there is a way to do things properly. In this holy month, Muslims are taught not to waste anything. Not to waste time, not to waste your saliva in backbiting at others, not waste food and so on. But how is it that so much food is wasted?
It is a question of discipline and in our home (this writer’s home), we rarely throw food away. It is only when we have no choice that the food got rotten, then we throw it away. Otherwise, what we put in our plate, we finish it and when eating time is over, the plate is empty or only bones are left behind. Follow this principle and the country will win!
