Chicken Ala Carte

Chicken ala Carte

Every time we go to a restaurant or any kind of place to eat, do you ever thought about what will happen to those excess foods that you left and took for granted? And have you ever thought about where does these food will go? We all know that these food will all go to the garbage bin but do you know where will it go next? Some of these foods will be used as decomposed material to make the land futile but some are even used as food by those in the marginalized part of the city. Would you consider that as food?

The food seen in the short film which comes from the garbage of some restaurant is not food in the eyes of the some people in the society but in areas like biology it is considered food for it serve its purpose to sustain life. Even though it served its purpose as food for the poor this so called food or what we can call ‘pagpag’ in the some urban areas in the Philippines it has no assurance that the food is safe to be a resource every day especially for children. In the short film, the children do not know the consequences of the food that they are eating. You did not even know if these children wash their hands before eating the food from the bin. You do not even know if the person that eats it previously has a contagious diseases that will be contacted later on by the children. The food they eat may quench their hunger for a day but these food cannot quench the requirements the body really needs for biological processes. There will come a time that the children may get a disease or a deficiency because of the nature of the food they eat. This is the reason why I do not consider the ‘chicken ala carte’ a food for it only serves it purpose to sustain life but not the purpose of providing the right nutrients for the body to grow. The children may survive but