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(Thematic report - DECEMBER); SUSTAINABLE TABLE
by Zefania Mkingi \| 26-01-2020 16:43 0
SUSTAINABLE TABLE In Africa it has been very difficult to have sustainable table meal, not only sustainable but also balanced diet. I remember when I was a kid my family used to eat bread, chapatti, vitumbua and other such kind of things in the morning, noon we usually ate ugali, and night we ate rice this was our daily food schedule. Sometimes in holidays we used to eat something different from our daily schedule. This seems as sustainable table since less carbon emitted, less use of energy like eating of meat and industrial food, but was actually not the balanced diet. All over the world today, people are thinking about having good family and healthy one, thus they try their best to invest a lot of money in ensuring they are healthy enough mentally and physically, without knowing that they can be healthier today without having tomorrow to live for, due to unsustainable. What is sustainable table, sustainable I can shortly say is maintain the balanced diet without comprising the need of tomorrow (next generation). We have been investing a lot of money on agricultural by using sometimes GMO to make sure production is increasing but this is not sustainable since land/soil is being destructed by artificial fertilizers used hence no any health we maintain rather we distort it. Environmentally, the use of artificial fertilizers with lot of chemicals led to land pollution, water and air pollution, as result these issues led to the climate change. This is unsustainable table. The processing of food nowadays have been very dangerously to our health and environment, since food are packed in the plastics added with chemicals which after consuming it add the trash to the environment What to do, we have to eat the fresh food, avoiding eating foods packed with unnecessary plastics this would help to reduce the effects of plastics from food, also to avoid eating food from highly fertilized production if are avoid this, the market for these products will be low hence natural production will increase and we will achieve the sustainable table.

Dormant user Zefania Mkingi

4 Comments

Jasmine Karki says :
Greetings
I do hope everything is going well..

Thank you so much for sharing your report..
Hope to learn more from you..

Green cheers
Regards
Jasmine karki
Posted 15-03-2020 14:33

Asmita Gaire says :
Greetings zefania
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report
Sustainable Development and sustainable table is of great need. many people are unheard about this topic till date I believe concerned authorities and education system must be improvised and made strong towards this matter
I hope to read more reports from you
Green cheers
Regards
Asmita Gaire
Posted 29-01-2020 11:57

Hyeongmin Mentor says :
Hello Zefania

Thank you for emphasizing the importance of having sustainable eating habits. As a solution to the issues you mentioned in your report, I suggest buying local foods. This is the solution I got from another report. By buying locally, there can be less carbon emissions, and the foods can be packed more simply since they move less distance. I hope many people get the habit of sustainable diet so there is no more unnecessary wastes produced from the foods.

Thank you for the great report.
Posted 26-01-2020 18:05

Lisa Mentor says :
Hey Zefania!
It's Lisa your mentor.

I cannot agree more to your words here indeed GMO and processing of foods including the packaging are serious threats to environment.
For our own convenience and selfish greed, we have always unconsciously and ignorantly consumed these foods.
It's time that we have to start thinking of what we eat, how we eat and where those food comes from.

Great article and enjoyed reading!
Keep up your work:)
Posted 26-01-2020 17:41