Author Topic: The Catholic view on wasting food (or loving expensive food) (Read 4876 times)

Matthew · « **on:** May 22, 2007, 08:55:37 AM »

Here is the Catholic position -- we should try to "eat to live, not live to eat" and certainly not waste food, when you have been blessed by God with plenty to eat.

It is absurd and disgraceful for one to live magnificently and luxuriously when so many go hungry.

St. Clement of Alexandria (150-215AD) on Poverty and Riches
Mini-Bio: Greek; theologian, head of the Catechetical School at Alexandria, Egypt

Magdalene · « **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2007, 06:57:27 PM »

I end up facing this situation all the time with Granny. She doesn't finish all her food on the plate. I can't save it in the fridge till the next day because then the food becomes hard when you reheat it and she can't eat it hard. So I throw the food away. Is that a sin?

Happywife · « **Reply #2 on:** May 24, 2007, 06:27:38 PM »

I don't think so, especially since she is old. You should try making /giving her less food, if she is still hungry you give her a tiny bit more, etc. That way you do not have to worry. I don't think you should have to eat her yucky old food.

Dulcamara · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2008, 01:39:33 PM »

This is another way in which the poor are richly blessed. It's hard to over eat or over indulge when you're struggling just to eat in the first place.

Kephapaulos · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2008, 02:58:31 PM »

Yes, indeed. Gluttony is, of course, one of the seven deadly sins. :scared2: :tv-disturbed: