essay on save food save life
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Gandhiji rightly said, “There is enough for every man’s need, but not for any man’s greed.” Have you ever noticed a six year-old child, knock on your window at a red light, his eyes filled with hunger? Have you ever looked at the barren ground and thought about how green that very piece of land must have been perhaps, centuries ago? Have you heard the cry of Gaia, the mother earth, or perhaps bhumi, her native equivalent? Have you ever hesitated before throwing a wrapper outside your car window?
Food is a commodity that will soon become a luxury for most of us. Not because we won’t be able to afford it, but because food will not be accessible or available to the masses. Why, you might ask will this happen? It is because the earth too gets exhausted and has an expiry date that may take lifetimes to renew. Back in the days of the French revolution, it was the inability of people to purchase bread that caused social unrest. In the near future, we may not have any food left to fight over. Why? Because we were too caught up with our desires of wanting more for now, that we turned a blind eye to the land that rotted before us. Our existence revolves around earth that has provided us with every necessity that our hearts have desired. But perhaps, Malthus was right. The growing population is inversely affecting the land and nature has a way of getting back at us, punishing us for the injustice we are doing to her. The excessive use of fertilizers for earning the extra buck, has earned a little less gratitude from earth. The want of procuring the maximum profit from a piece of land and its use to grow genetically modified crops, has made the land useless to fulfill our future desires. In this materialistic world, where we don’t think twice before polluting the beautiful planet we call home, we should at least think about our children; save a little Earth for their utilization, so that someday, they can indulge in the taste of a delicious vegetable pulao, or perhaps rajma/chana chawal like we do today.