One thing in this challenge that I began to notice a lot is how much people waste food. Every day in the CSU, I watch with hunger as I see someone throw away their half eaten sandwich or their partially drinken frappuccino. Drool drips down the side of my lips as tears fall from my eyes as a perfectly good half-eaten bowl of pho gets tossed in the trash.
“Don’t throw away those fries! Give them to me!” I want to scream to the student who just threw them away like my parents did with me. Who I notice the most that wastes food is the university. I’m a journalist for the campus newspaper, and I go to a lot of events. Most of them involve food. I recently went to American Indian Night, and had to stand in the back as I didn’t have a ticket. I watched sadly as people were served food. I almost cried when I saw them bring out the cheesecake decorated with beautiful fresh berries. I wanted to pretend I was a server so I could take that picture of sparkling juice and chug it down. I miss carbonation. The servers’ wondered the CSU ballroom as they carried plates of cheesecake in their hands. Towards the end when there were still tables but plenty of cheesecake some wandered aimlessly for a good 15 minutes with cheesecake in their hands and gave up and took them to the back. I wanted to yell and wave my arms, “Give them to me! I want cheesecake! I will fight you!” but I remained silent. Only people with seats could have food. What really made me want to bawl my eyes out and made me so frustrated was when the servers’ came back to pick up the “finished” dishes. I stood there in the back as I saw chicken breast after chicken breast scraped off the plate into a huge pile of wasted food. Someone didn’t even touch their food, but the server had to get rid of it anyway. I saw whole pieces of cheesecake being wasted, I saw some with only the crust eaten being thrown out. I wanted to scream, I was so livid. Someone like me would have benefited greatly from those plates of food. Part of me wondered what happened to the leftovers? What happened to the dishes of food in the back? Most likely, they threw it away. This is not the only event where things like this happen. Even during Queer Prom, an event I helped host. After filling as much hummus I could in a container and taking a tray full of pita chips home with me, there was still a considerable amount left and wasted. If you think about it, there’s probably tons of food waste that happens daily in the dining hall. How can the school have less food waste? I really liked when after some events they leave the food out for students to take, but that is so rare. Why not do that for every event? It certainly doesn’t hurt and it could help out so many students. So why not? The school could also partner with Campus Kitchen, who could benefit from those foods as they normally rescue meals from being thrown away and repurpose them. The community could benefit from what could’ve been our food waste.
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