Is it a sin to waste food?

Answer 1

never waste what God gives you, it's a sin

Answer 2

No, in the sense of not finishing everything on your plate, it isn't a sin, since food is a completely renewable resource, like trees. Mother had several rules about eating, sometimes they conflicted. At home I had to eat whatever was on my plate, because "Children in China were starving." Even then I thought "Well, send them this because I sure don't want it." but never had the nerve to say it.

The other was, when eating out, "Leave a bite for Mr. Manners." That was so your host would notice you had left a bite, therefore you were not still hungry, and offer you more. If he did, and I wasn't, I could surely say "No thanks." Pretty stupid.

But that's the way it was. Just like I had to have clean underwear in case I was in an accident.

Answer 3

The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.

Love and blessings
don

Source --- Course in miracles

Answer 4

I wouldn't say it's a sin but with all the hungry people in the world
it's good to try and avoid wasting food.

Answer 5

My mother used to drill this saying into my head:

Wanton Waste Makes Woeful Want;
And you WILL see the day that you will say:
Oh, how I WISH I had that bread
That I once threw away!!!

I think drilling that into your child's head is much more of a sin than wasting a little food. I will NEVER teach my child that saying, and I hope that old age will some day rob me of that memory!

Answer 6

I don't think its a sin, its just sad to see people who don't have enough to eat and people who waste food because they can.

Answer 7

I never heard of it being a sin to waste food. But, I guess it can be.

Answer 8

No. It isn't, and don't buy into this guilt trip that religion might make it out to be. Consuming too much food is wrong. So many people are overweight because they believe wasting food to be a sin, so they overeat. Just don't eat so much.

Answer 9

I don't think it's a sin, but I also don't think it's very compassionate. However, there may be times when it is unavoidable, and when that happens, it happens. It's not like you can easily send your leftover food to Africa to feed starving people.

Answer 10

I think it would depend on if you just throw it away instead of offering it to someone hungry, because gluttony is a sin and if your full give it away.
Peace.