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作 Waste Not, Want Not Waste Not, Want Not
高三庚 牛欣然 高三庚 許嘉晏
English Writing When we possess too much, we tend to ask for While there are still some people wasting foods
more, and therefore we never cherish those things. and creating tons of leftovers, there are numerous
Reversely, when we keep our pockets loose, we people suffering from hunger. In Haiti, people
think of how to use the limited things we have to reluctantly eat mud cakes in order to keep their
the most, and best of all we learn to cherish. There hunger at bay. In addition to the dreadful taste,
is a great portion of population whom we seldom the heavy metal and other polluted ingredients
take a notice of, whom we are familiar with. They contained in mud cakes pose a threat to people’s
are suffering extreme poverties and tortured by health. However, choosing the mud cake as a
hunger while we are fed too full that we whine proper meal is the only choice available to the
about it. Children lying on the floor because their residents. Another example to show how people
bony little legs cannot support their torso; women suffer from hunger is Chad, Africa. People there
are unstoppingly LUprocessing mud for mud cakes; have about US$25 a week to prepare the food for
men are holding guns, preparing for another battle a family of six. Their weekly diet mainly consists of
to take over other tribes’ land, longing for more sorghum and they even consider salt a luxurious
resources. Terrible things are happening every thing.
44 single second on the other side of the world, while
普 we are wasting more, wanting more. In my case, I seldom have leftovers after
finishing my meals. The reason I do that is not
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字 As a teenager, we should keep an eye on because I do not eat much. It is because I really
館 purchasing excessive luxuries or food and never appreciate what I have for food. Nowadays, as
have our eyes bigger than our stomach. We should more and more all-you-can-eat restaurants thrive
only take the amount we need. What we waste is in Taiwan, more and more people choose to satisfy
what we have taken away from the poor people their mouth’s desire instead of listening to their
who will really need it. We need to start from stomach for what they need and how much they
ourselves and make a little difference to the world. need. In other words, people nowadays often have
their eyes bigger than their stomach. Hence, more
and more leftovers are created. In my opinion,
taking the appropriate amount of what you can
digest in a meal is the best way to prevent leftovers
from being created. The second idea that I came
up with is to think about the poor who starve all
day when you are about to throw away what you
don’t want to eat. Last but not least, we should
be grateful for all the food we have in our meal. It
is the thing that every human being in the world
should do. The proverb “Waste not, want not”
starts with “waste” not “want”; thus, before we
want something so bad, we should waste nothing
first.
FOOD
