Analysis Of How Fruits And Vegetables Can Help Solve World Hunger

Response Essay for "How 'Ugly’ Fruits and Vegetables Can Help Solve World Hunger"

In her article "How 'Ugly’ Fruits and Vegetables Can Help Solve World Hunger," Elizabeth Royte discussed the problem that wasting food, and she mentioned how ugly vegetables or fruits which do not look good can help solve world hunger. Food is an important factor for every one to still alive. In this world, people have many issues, and one of them is wasting food. This problem occurs in all the world in developed and developing countries. However, hunger knocks doors of many people around the world, especially in Africa and causes many problems while some countries as Saudi Arabia suffer from the high amount of wasting food, but people can solve this problem

As the author mentioned, "In comparison, developed nations waste more food farther down the supply chain, when retailers order, serve, or display too much and when consumers ignore leftovers in the back of the fridge or toss perishables before they’ve expired." That is completely true. I have one of my friends who works at one of the biggest supermarkets in Saudi. The point here is that his supervisor always tells him to take any food which only still has one to two months before expiration out of the store shelves to keep the supermarket's reputation good in front of customers. That is not a problem, but when theses kinds of supermarkets throw the food unless someone takes this food to his/her home or to a charity. That is one kind of wasting food which occurs in many countries, and that exactly what the author mentioned in her article. Moreover, the idea of being generous when you have guests by offering many different kinds of food. Generosity is a good adjective, especially when it appears on a person’s actions. However, to be generous does not mean to wast food while other people around the world can not find it. Some people in Saudi put kabsa which is a traditional dish from rice and meat in a big dish for several people to show their generosity. That has a problem because these kinds of large dishes people cannot eat all the food in them. So most of the times the food will be in a trash because Saudis use their hands in eating kabsa and the food cannot be clean to eat or to offer it for any one. In Saudi and many countries, some people have wrong actions with food, and that leads to waste this boon while other people need a little amount of what some people