Sustainability is now the hot topic in the academic world. But really there is more than just recycling, reusing and reducing waste, it is all about the social ethos you live in, your ability to ‘walk the talk’. This entails more than just making grabbing that bottle of coke bottle you just had and recycling it, one needs to understand why, how sustainability could be entrenched within your values and beliefs. Our sources and choices of food impacts our surrounding, the consequence of our food waste might just be destroying the ecology of our . Let us fathom upon our food system, how do we embrace a more sustainable food system.

On a personal level, I believe that sustainable food systems are born out of a culture of ‘respect’, respect for each other (us), respect for the land and the respect for our future generations (our children and descendants). A food system that yields good food has to be one that its consumers recognize that we are embedded as part of this food system, and that our actions and choices impacts and affects subsequent generations environmentally, culturally, socially. Man has overtime disconnected himself from the very earth that gave it food and energy; we need to recognize that life will only sustain humanity only if earth continues to bestow its abundance of produces. Godfray et al. (2010) on solving the problem of feeding 9 billion people conclude, “The goals is no longer simply to maximize productivity, but to optimize across a far more complex landscape of production, environmental, and social justice outcomes”. We as citizens of the world thus needs to be assertive on demanding and sourcing our food from more sustainable origins, such as fair trade labeling and supporting local farm coops and local food markets.