Food Wastage and Hunger

Cultures are very important. Japanese are considered very disciplined and especially with respect to food. They do not waste even a single rice grain. Similarly it is culturally unaccetable to waste food in Germany.
India has also seen many famines and even today many sleep hungry. For some or the other reason culturally we have not imbibed frugality with respect to food. The large middle class (pardon the generalization) is not perturbed by the wastage of food.
Most corporates provide subsidized food and employees help themselves liberally. They most of the times take food more than what they intend to eat. This results in food being wasted. The same is true in restaurants and few homes. People do feel guilty at times but hardly it makes them more conscious about the servings which they need to help themselves with.
How do we change this?
How do we make the large burgeoning middle class realize that there are children sleeping hungry. There are children dying of malnutrition.
An excerpt from Lancet

"

The fact that an inexpensive and readily treatable

condition that aff ects 868 million people, kills

2·3 million children per year, and was targeted as

a Millennium Development Goal, should remain

uncontrolled year after year is as shocking as it is

shameful. Moreover, that hunger still has such a grip on

14% of the world’s population—despite enough food

being produced to feed everyone—is an indictment of

failed policies at many levels, according to

Enough food

for everyone IF,

a report by a collaboration of more than100 charities and religious groups, launched on Jan 23."

People interested to read more about hunger can refer Harsh Mander's book, Ash In The Belly.