Build Food Bank To Stop Us Wasting Food In Scarce Food

Indonesia is big country which rich of natural resources, on the other hand the

population of Indonesia is big. It is counted around 240 million in 2014 with crude birth rate

about 3, 5 – 4 million per year. According to big population, Indonesia needs to provide

much food. Data of FAO states that there are 40% food in this world become waste food.

This case leads to talk about feeding hungry planet which is not sufficient if only talk about

how to increase production food but mainly discuss how to manage food that we consume,

minimize food prodigality and no more wasting food. The solution is being thrifty and

deposit food in food bank, food bank anable people to deposit his food, every time you eat

you can order two portion food but one you eat now and one again its become your savings as

insurance that guarantee you can eat in future. You have savings account in food bank and

bargain interest. Food bank also gives food loan to poor hungry people that are not able to

eat.

Humans explosion is not balance with available resources, demand is rising while

resources are dwindling. Scarce food makes people become greedy, now day food is rare but

rate of waste food is high, really not rational but there is the fact. Saveral people use this

opportunity to process rotten food. Danger rotten food has been processed with adding danger

chemical food additives and using remaining dose for covering demage in food. In Indonesia

a lot of case abusing food addditive occured. Fried chicken made from rotten corpse chicken

that not sold in market or waste chicken from restaurants. Food culprit manipulated this

rotten corpse by adding chemical conserving like formaldehid that used to conserving dead

body, seasoning, and borax to make old corpse chicken become like fresh chicken again. No

matter who, no matter when most of food trader small or big use chemical food additive

without knowledge what the effect to humans health.

In Indonesia collect all of waste food has become profession. There are comunity or

individual that coordinated food garbages from eating places like restaurants, food stall, cattle

breeding, dairy cooperative, farming cooperative, traders in market, etc. Differ from what did

by another outstanding country, in Indonesia food gerbage collected not recycling become

compost or cattle food to decrease refuse, but recycling by adding so much chemical food

additive to cover rotten food and sold again with low price, usually poor people forced to

consume that because the low price. In fact people eat rotten corpse fish, rotten tofu, meat,

fruit, chicken, meatball, etc that contain billion killer bacteria plus killer chemical agent in

food.

Actually nature already give the best food to humans and now the problem is how

humans utilized that. In hungry planet and rare food why people still prodigal, still leftover

his food and make waste food. 40 % waste food become environment polluter, in scarce food

and high poverty these rubbish used become raw material that give opportunity to bad person

to process again as danger food. Existance of waste food in the world of course caused by

humans prodigality. Humans still thinking if he has have money, he would able to buy food

no mather when. Now day humans not care about food willingness, he can eat as he’s

pleasure, not care about how useless leftover food, not care how this planet in a moment

become hungry planet. Humans still wasting food in scarce food is so horrifying.

This issue affect a more wide spread population, imagine that people still wasting food,

imagine that 40 % food become useless as rubbish. Imagine what happened with food

willingness, in long term we or our son not able to eat again, imagine what happened to

hungry people that not eat in his life. In other place people wasting them food but in other

place people will die due to hungriness. In short term, if we still wasting food, imagine bad

person still collect rotten food that we dispose and then recycling by adding so much

chemical food additive, image what happened to poor people that eat rotten food contain

killer bacteria plus killer chemical subtances, imagine how that bacteria and danger chemical

substances demage them body and bring them to death, imagine how people live in danger

environment that polluted by garbages from our leftover food. People will die due to food

poisoning.

There is saveral case about hungriness and food poisoning that kill so much people

around the world;

Russia’s famine plague in 1891, precisely in the province of Kazan, Kursk, Nizhni,

Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Perm, Riazan, Samara, Sartov, Simbirsk, Tambov, Tula, Ufa, Viatka

and Voronoezh. Starvation occurs because the harvest in the region of Russia was very bad.

Bad weather and lack of rain that fall as well as government policies were still exporting food

stuffs, whereas harvest in his own country has fallen dramatically. Starving people forced to

eat everything, whether it be rock, sand and non-food materials. people forced to eat

Golodnyi khleb, which is a mixture of wild grass, chopped straw, tree trunks, sand and then

this material is mixed with water and wheat with a small amount (if they have it). Golodnyi

khleb both in aroma, taste, or appearance is very disgusting and do not contain any nutrients,

this food only serves as a booster stomach. Eat Golodnyi, can cause poisoning if there are

fleas or mites are present in the mixture. This starvation actually could be overcome by

saving food as food savings to guarantee people still able to eat in non favorable condition

like disaster and horrible bad climate.

China ‘s food poisoning scandal on 16 July 2008, and the first area affected is the

Gansu Province. 16 babies have to suffer from kidney stones due to toxic milk powder that

contain melamine. Sanlu Group dishonesty have also resulted in the same event in previous

year 2007, but the Chinese government's actions at that time only until the testing and

monitoring of production. At that time, chinese government was bribed by Sanlu Group so

milk melamine phenomenon not spread out. However, the toxic milk scandal that erupted in

2008 could not be covered again especially amount of death reached 300,000 with 54,000 of

whom must treated intensively in the hospital, six baby later died after getting treatment. The

baby died of kidney badly damage caused by the content of melamine in milk powder. Sanlu

Group adding melamine in milk intended to be seen a lot of protein. Court trial in 2010, two

government officials forcibly fired, and at the Sanlu Group two people sentenced to death

while two others were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Today, in this era the problem is humans prodigal attitude that still wasting food, the

solution is countermand wasting food with repair human prodigal and replace by scrimp food,

come on deposit food as savings and build food bank. Food bank working rightly money

institution but this is coordinate your food savings as insurance that guarantee you can eat in

future. Talk about feeding hungry planet not sufficient if only talk about how to increase

production food because there is limited and can’t reformed but mainly discuss how to

manage food that we eat, minimize food prodigality and no more wasting food. Lets start

from simple thing that we can do.

This food bank completed by internet servicing that help you make easy order, only

choose our food menu that you want in our website, just click with your finger like you make

order in restaurants, and then our system record that as your savings food account. Food bank

website contain a lot of kind food from a lot of eating places in your country, you seat in

restaurant thinking about what you eat now and what you eat in the future, every time you

eat make two food reservation. One food you eat now and others as your food deposit in

your account food bank. Whenever, whereever you can buy food in our bank, pay it with

your money and record as your savings. Now you can scrimp your money in your pouch and

not buy remaining food again.

Food bank also coordinate farmers, cattleman, fisherman,etc as produsen. They sold all

of harvest product like grain, wheat, corn, fresh milk, meat, cattles, fruits, potatotes, etc and

record as they savings. With food bank farmers not only sold they crops and get money just

the time but get service and interest for their crop savings. Food bank build companion with

all of eating places as food suplier that we sold again as our consumer savings. Food bank

change raw material become many kinds manufactured product that have higher quality and

more durable. Food bank make trading between farmers and restaurants become easy.

Through food bank farmers easy to sold crops and no more rotten crop in post harvesting,

reastaurant easy to get raw material plus easy to sold food to consumers. As a bank, food

bank give you best service about food, keep food willingness, build food home industry, give

food loan to poor people that not able to eat, and in not favorable condition you can liquidate

your savings as real food. so much thing we can do to prevent hungriness with build food

bank.

The biggest scale of food banks has been broadly welcomed. Not only do they provide

a solution to the problem of hunger that doesn't require resources from the state, but they can

be viewed as evidence of increasing community spirit and of active, caring citizenship.

Drawing on the United States's experience after the rapid rise of food banks in the 1980s,

American sociology professor Janet Poppendieck warned that the rise of food banks can

contribute to a long term erosion of human rights and support for entitlements. Once food

banks become well established, it can be politically impossible to return responsibility for

meeting the needs of hungry people to the state. Poppendieck says that the logistics of

running food banks can be so demanding that they prevent kind hearted people from having

time to participate in public policy advocacy; yet she also says if they can be encouraged to

lobby politicians for long term changes that would help those on low income, they often have

considerable credibility with legislators.

By : Putri Wahyuni Siburian

Student in Gadjah Mada University-Indonesia, Agroindustrial Technology Majority