As soon as I ran inside after the morning tea bell I was wondering what we were doing for writing. I was eager to do this.
As Miss Taylor told us to pick it up I could feel the flesh and the hard skin. I thought it might be an orange or a sour lolly.
A second later we have to taste the food. It was in my mouth I could feel the texture of the sweetness and the juice. When I was finished my mouth was really sticky.
Last term in room 7 for inquiry we focused on superheroes like Batman and Superman but this term we are looking at real life Superheroes. My presentation was about Jonah Lomu. We had to ask three open ended questions and research the three questions.
“If you don’t
eat all your tea, you won’t get pudding.” “Don’t ask me for anything else
later.” These are things that parents say at tea time when you are at the table
and not eating all your food. It sounds like moaning from your parents, but let
me tell you why they keep going on about us wasting our food.
Firstly, food is
really expensive, so it costs a lot of money when you waste your food. If money
gets spent on food that goes in the bin, then there will be no money left for
other things. If money is wasted on food that goes in the bin, then there will
be no money left to buy more food. If you don’t eat all of your food it
would go to the scraps to the pigs on the farm.
Secondly there
are lots of poor families and starving people in the world who have no food.
They would really like to eat the food that we leave on our plate or throw in
the bin. These people are dying because they are so hungry, so it seems very
bad that we waste food. The poor people get no food at all and we get really
good, really yummy food but we waste it! We leave it on our plate, then we
chuck it in the bin! Poor people would think that we are greedy and have too
much food.
Finally, all of
the food that goes in the wheelie bin ends up going to the dump and the dumps
are getting too full. Food that goes in the dump ends up really gross and
stinky. You would be put off going to a town that smelled like rubbish. I would
not like to live next door to the dump. A dump attracts rodents. Rats go
scavenging through the dump to find our wasted food. I wouldn’t want to live
near a dump that was full of stinky food waste and rats!!
Food is really
expensive so when you waste your food it costs a lot of money. There lots
of poor families and starving people in the world who have no food. They would
really like to eat the food that we leave on our plate ae or throw in the bin.
You would be put off going to a stinky town that smelled like rotten food and
rats. We should think carefully about wasting our food, and either cook less or
eat more!
