Two news and remarkable news published by the newspaper “Al -Watan”, last Sunday; The first was related to the resort of the people of the Gaza Strip, and in light of the war of extermination that has been going on for more than a year and a half and the suffocating siege that targeted all the ingredients of life, to eat turtle meat, after they exhausted everything that could be eaten.
As for the second news, it was about the monthly report of the Bahraini Grace Conservation Association, which indicated the success of the association in preserving more than 221 thousand dinars of the value of food waste during the month of Ramadan only, by distributing about 74 thousand food meals to the beneficiaries, as well as about 1700 food baskets.
These two stories summarize one of the most important and dangerous ethical and social challenges facing our societies; Wasting grace. At a time when part of the world suffers from real famine, it leads people to devour unless it comes to mind, we find in our societies food rates that are from the top worldwide, according to official statistics and local reports.
In Bahrain, the value of food is estimated annually in millions of dinars, a large part of which is the result of individual and societal behaviors, whether in banquets or determination or even in the simplest details of daily life, and it is strange that many of this waste occurs in the seasons of goodness as Ramadan, where fasting is assumed to be a school in feeling the hunger of others, not a season to fill the tables and pride in the large number of dishes.
The efforts of the Association for the Conservation of Grace are grateful and powerful, but it is not sufficient for this shocking reality.
The association’s report included many numbers and details related to the size of the food successful; Where it indicates that 5140 meals of restaurants were preserved during the month of Ramadan, along with 44045 meals of hotels, and 20603 meals from various occasions, of which 268 families and 1333 individuals benefited.
The biggest shocking number is what the association has shown in its success by preserving approximately 3 million meals, specifically 2795837 meals from 2014 to March 2025, imagine this number, which can be translated into millions of dinars in our budget as individuals and a state.
In Gaza, people slaughter the turtles to remain alive after they eaten everything that comes to mind; Correct and expired foods, animal food, weeds and plants .. While we throw food in the waste minutes after applying it to the table, and between the first and second image, a distance from the conscience we should shorten quickly.
