Week 10 (19/12/2022 - 25/12/2022)

Week 10 Blog

Christmas, a widely-celebrated occasion associated with gift-giving and feasting. As for us, my extended family and I had a sumptuous meal on Christmas Eve with delectable delights including roast beef and salads. 

However, amidst our lavish dinner, wastage was inevitable. After our meal, we had a lot of meat and cakes leftover. To reduce wastage, my family and I decided to split the food among ourselves and take it back to our own homes. The next day, my mother minced up the roast beef and stir-fried it to make a "corned beef-style" dish for dinner.

This was a great way to reduce food wastage since none of the meat was thrown away or composted. Wasting food is unsustainable as agriculture leads to large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions such as methane which contributes to the enhanced greenhouse gas effect in our atmosphere through rearing cattle. In addition, clearing land for farm use involves deforestation, which further stimulates the enhanced greenhouse gas effect. Hence, by wasting food, we are in a sense "wasting" the harmful emissions from agriculture used to produce our food. Although rearing animals is undoubtedly very harmful for the environment, the least we can do on a personal scale is to make sure that we get the most out of these emissions.