Impact Your World - SAFE Worldwide ( Save A Food Expedition Worldwide)

June 16, 2008 | Cebu City, Philippines | Vetting explained

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I wrote this article lasy May 2008 and when I tuned in to CNN this morning ( I watch CNN daily) I came to realize how could this article Impact our world for the better. I started this quest at home after my business trip to the USA. I shared this point of view to my friends and officemates and all of them were amazed of the volume of food being wasted in contrary to the need for FOOD in some countries. With this in mind, I decided to come up with an organization ( not registered yet) called SAFE Worldwide or Save A Food Expedition - Worldwide hoping each one of us would think of other people who are starving everytime we waste food or put unfinished food to the trash. For me, a single grain saved would make a difference, collectively. I taught my daughter not to waste food and eat what she has in the plate or ask the nanny to prepare only what she feels she can fully consume and just ask for additional serving if it's not enough. I am doing this because I want to tell the whole world that food, being a basic neccesity must be treated with full respect. Because if do not respect the food we have on the table, it won't be long before we realize how can we live without it or when prices to bring food to the table would be far beyond reach to most of us. With this quest, to start with, hopefully would somehow impact our world as it has impacted my world already. Here's the article I wrote: I had my first trip to the USA as a Vendor Manager of a Fortune 500 company based in the USA but I am assigned to oversee collection operations in an outsourcing company in my country-Philippines. My first US travel was very memorable and it's a wonderful experience. In fact, I felt bloated during my first week because of the delicious and mouthwatering food I ate. Almost all restaurants in the city where I stayed (Knoxville, TN) serve more food than I can consume in 1 serving alone. I spent at the average of $17 per meal (lunch & dinner) and I didn't have a choice of choosing half of what's in the picture because that's the normal serving. I once asked my officemate in Knoxville and she said it's a normal serving in the US and that is why most Americans are huge or fat. As you can see in the attachments, you see a 2-course meal. That's a lot to munch and I was not sure if I'd be able to consume all of it but I paid for it. Most of the times, in my two weeks stay in Knoxville, I either leave the unfinished food on my table and they said they would throw it or I would ask for a box to bring it back to my hotel room. But, it didn't make any use at all because my tummy is full and the unconsumed food I took back in my hotel room ended up in the trash. Imagine how much money being wasted, how much grains went to the trash, how much delicious food went to garbage because of the huge amount per serving (the normal serving as i was told). I want to make a change on this, I hope. I am a Filipino. Here in my country, the serving is just enough and if you want more, you order again. There are even a number of restaurants and fast food serve half-cup rice. I feel so bad and worried knowing some of the food I bought went to the trashcan. There are a lot of people in every corners of the world starving to death, imagining of eating good food due to poverty and the ballooning price increases of basic commodities, and oil. For me, every grain matters, every bit of a meat or vegetable is precious. I think the way those hungry kids, hungry families think. if I can do something for us to save food, it can give a more positive impact in addressing the global rice shortage, the hunger in some nations. At home, I always tell my 4 year-old daughter not to throw food on the floor. I always remind her and let her see pictures or actual people on the streets who beg for food and money. I teach her the value of everything/ The value of love, respect, kindness and sharing. I believe in my own little way, I can make a change that starts from my family and my immediate friends, and hopefully could share it to their friends and their friends' friends then to the world. It is about time. Let us do something to save us and the generations to come. Food. Each one of us can not live without it. Let's not waste it. Let us work together to save us all. Discipline starts from us and for this to be achieved we need cooperation and understanding of each other's needs, regardless of race, color, sexual orientation or religion. At home, in our houses, we respect , support and love each other. We can do this globally as we live in one roof, one sky, one earth, one world, one source of food. Let us help each other and start SAFE Worldwide! Rey Lopez - Philippines ( rey_m_lopez@yahoo.com, 00639238505081)

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