A restaurant in Japan is fining
customers who leave any food on their plate after their meal.
The seafood restaurant states on its menu that customers who leave any
part of their dish will be fined a surcharge, which is donated to the
fishermen who caught the meal.
The menu of The Hachikyo states: “The
working conditions for fishermen are harsh and so dangerous that it's not
unknown for lives to be lost.
“To show our gratitude and appreciation for the
food they provide, it is forbidden to leave even one grain of rice in your
bowl.
“Customers who do not finish must
give a donation.”
A while ago, I’m not sure exactly
when, a report was published that said up to half the world’s food gets wasted,
well clearly the proprietors of The Hachikyo saw that because this is quite an
ingenious way of trying to solve the wastage problem.
This system may work well in Japan given
that a large part of the diet is made up of fish, but I can’t see this working
quite so well in Britain, I don’t think the providers of our mostly meat diet
have it quite as tough.
Fishing in swirling winds and
torrential rain on wavy seas in the middle of a winters night is, I imagine, very
dangerous, but here in Britain there’s very little risk of a farmer dying while
grazing his cattle, I think we would need to come up with a different system.
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