Students for Food

While at work yesterday, I had the great good fortune to work with a young woman from Nepal and another one from Vietnam.

We were discussing the terrible amount of food that gets discarded by the organization for which we work. Outdated stuff, left over stuff, uneaten stuff. We tried to think of solutions to saving this food and reducing the waste, when so many people go without food - something we all know unless we have been living in a cave since we were born.

The young woman from Vietnam said, in her family and culture, if you waste even one grain of rice on your plate, "It bad!" They both went on to say, that there is very little, if any, food waste in the lives they left to go to college in a small Indiana town.

I said, well maybe you could create some sort of student organization, I know, "Students for Food!"

There was a slight pause, and then they both said, laughing, students for food? ALL students are for food!

We all had a pretty good laugh.