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When you are working with an NGO, everything seems to either be perfectly correct or going completely wrong.While we mostly work for a living there are many who who work to enjoy food at the expense of "Global Food Losses and Food Waste", a study released by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)Food waste is "more a problem in industrialised countries, most often caused by both retailers and consumers throwing perfectly edible foodstuffs into the trash" ..... At (one of my previous organisations) the 'Titanic' every morning I saw some of my colleagues starting their day with street food and slurping it away happily. In Delhi, 'street food', the best of its kind is 'katchori', 'jalebi', 'chaat', 'pakore', 'gol guppas' and people usually don't get bored with this uber category of foods available.
It has also brought to light a very significant importance and direct co-existence of food as the biggest motivational factor.
I have noticed my good observation skills have kept me interested in knowing more about a lot things including people.This month, while there have been humongous task lists to finish by the deadline, all I see around me is food piling up! Social workers eating food and doing nothing and the others fighting for the right to food for poor and getting nothing. While working for human rights causes is a serious affair, I have been shocked enough to overcome the vaporous feeling with which some people work in this industry. Eating food is what keeps them going!
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied…and it is all one.”
— M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
