Man vs. Dog

One can easily find a Chai Wala as well as a Pan Wala at the gate of any college, my college is no exception. One day when I was standing there with a few of my friends, I saw something; a small kid of the age of around 7 yrs came close to a guy and started asking for a cup of tea; that guy very rudely said “Get lost or I’ll bash u.” with fear on his face and tears in his eyes that kid very slowly moved away, after a while one dog came close to the same guy and started creating various kind of sounds as if he was asking for something from him; the guy than went to the tea shop, bought a packet of biscuit and started feeding him.

The similar kind of situation exits everywhere in our society, we can provide chapatti to cow but when someone really starving comes to us and ask for food we says ‘Get away, we don’t have anything.’ Many a times you can find kids fighting for food which they have collected from the garbage, it’s the same food that we throw away because no one from our family wants to eat it; and we instead of giving it to someone throw it into the dustbin. There are many countries in the world where people are suffering with malnutrition; in our own country more than 20% of people eat just one time in a day, and many a times they don’t even get anything to eat. There also exists the other side of the coin in which people tell the cook to prepare something and then with the ring of the phone they say throw it I am going in a party. Few times it happens that we find something very delicious and take a huge serving of it on our plate, but after eating a small portion we says ‘yar my tummy is full, I can’t eat more now.’ After that, food becomes of no use and we simply throw it away. Now a question arises, is it really necessary to waste the food, that too at the time when so many people are not getting anything to eat, when farmers are committing suicide because there farms are crop less? Can’t we take a sufficient amount which we can really eat? Can’t we make our plans in advance to diminish the problem? And if we can’t do all this than can’t we give the food which is left, to the people who really need it? Of course, we can do it; but than we need to change our habits, we need to change our thinking. If we can give food to an animal than we can also provide food to a man, we need to understand that humans are not beneath animals, they also have the right to eat. I am not asking you to stop feeding animals or to entertain hungry people with money; I am simply asking, not to waste the food and to feed the people with the food that we can not consume. If something is left in the kitchen after fulfilling your requirement then please give it to someone who is starving, try to understand that it is always better to feed someone than to create a bunch of garbage.