China's fight against food waste clashes with tradition

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"We have a tradition where we believe that being hospitable means having leftovers, if only empty plates remain then it looks bad on you as a host."

This is what Beijing is up against with its latest "Clean Plate" campaign, launched last week by President Xi Jinping, who called on Chinese diners to stop wasting food.

Calling it "shocking and distressing", Mr Xi said in comments carried by the official People's Daily that habits of frugality must be cultivated. To drive home his point, he quoted a Tang Dynasty poem: "Who knows that each grain in your bowl, is the fruit of pain and toil".

The average Chinese diner throws away 93g of food per meal when eating out, according to a 2018 study by a Chinese research institute. This is about 11.7 per cent of his meal.

it is "rare for a modern, developed country to interfere in people's lives in such a manner".

"Some people might find this quite laughable. If you make laws that you cannot implement then people will stop respecting the law,"

Qns:

1. 'Science is the only answer to global hunger.' Discuss. (Cam. 2019)

2. How important is it for people in your society to retain a sense of tradition? (Cam. 2010)