中國的餐館食物浪費根源大多數在公款吃喝，自己掏錢的，多都打包。德國的故事，10年前就在網上流傳了，供參考：
此文曆史非常悠久，出現在2000年左右、歐元尚未正式流通時。這篇某人在屋裏憑空想象出來的“國際經驗”文章，當時雖然有一定的“教育意義”，但是去過德國的中國人都知道這種事情是子虛烏有。“社會保障機構”有權罰款嗎?“工作人員”居然伸手拿現金！
下麵引文標出的紅字，無一不是充滿了某些國人對自己的不自信、和對歐美一廂情願的想象。特別是“白人老太太”——為了充分說明老太太“摳門行為”的正當性，生怕讀者不理解，刻意強調“白人”兩個字。仿佛告訴大家：嗯，下麵的文字描寫的是白人（雅利安人！日爾曼民族！ ），所以大家不要笑、要嚴肅，她們的行為是我準備拿來當作標本的……真活脫一副XX的嘴臉。難怪人之所以比別人矮，那是因為他自己先下跪了。“在這樣一個發達國家，人們的生活一定是紙醉金迷燈紅酒綠吧。 ” ——這樣的筆觸怎麽看都像一個上世紀80年代出國的人的口吻，貌似作者是喜歡模仿這樣的口氣，嗬嗬。
批判這篇狗屁文章的目的絕不是說，我們應該鋪張浪費；相反，我主張在這方麵學習德國。
但主文的論證方法實在太愚蠢，太可笑了。
作者要編也編得像一點，不要以為隨便扯一個“政治正確”的理由，再謅兩句國際如何如何、國外如何如何，就是一篇好文章。
我本人就在德國，我可以告訴樓主三點：
1. 德國社會非常節約，這點完全值得我們所有人學習。所以作者編造這篇文章的立意也許是對的；
2. 德國是一個恪守法治的國家。你們在餐廳鋪張浪費，大手大腳，這屬於道德問題，會被德國人所鄙視，但沒有任何一個公權力機關會來開罰單幹涉。因為這種行為涉及到公權力對私法上的契約自由的限製，而一但在這種限製上打開了缺口，那麽整個社會的民主性、自由性，包括整個國家的法治性（德文叫 Rechtstaatlichkeit）將會大打折扣。德國機關寧可看見你們浪費一噸飯，也不會為這個而來開罰單，因為這等於為了製止你們的浪費而將整個國家拉回“國家可以為了良好的目的而任意幹涉公民的生活”的狀態，而這種狀態意味著什麽？經曆過第二次世界大戰的德國人非常清楚。
從作者的文章來看，作者可能並不真正理解了先進國家關於反鋪張浪費的思維方式，而用典型的大陸式的思維越俎代庖了。
實際上，在西方國家，公權力行為的正當性是與行為的目的、行為的手段、行為的程序息息相關的。不能因為某個公法行為“出發點是好的”，公民就對它縱容，而放棄了法治的監督。
隻要某個公法行為在某一個道德觀念上占據了製高點，就可以不顧法定程序、不顧行為的適當性，而是打著美麗的旗號奮不顧身地勇往直前，甚至效果適得其反還不回頭，這是中國式的做法，不是德國的。
德國的浪費也是很驚人的，政府正在著手治理：
Germany launches initiative to reduce food waste
Every German throws away over 80 kilograms of food on average per year, according to a study presented in Berlin on Tuesday. Germany's agriculture minister wants that amount reduced by half by 2025.
Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner launched in Berlin on Tuesday an initiative to reduce the amount of food thrown away in Germany, in a bid to combat an increasing problem of which she said the population was simply unaware.
"We have become a society of abundance and harbor a throw-away mentality," Aigner told journalists," after announcing that over 11 million kilograms of food were thrown away per year in Germany - well over of half (60 percent) of which is from private households.
Aigner's "too good for the bin" initiative will try to educate Germans
The findings suggested that another 20 percent of food waste came from grocery markets, with 17 percent coming from larger consumers such as restaurants and cafeterias.
The study, conducted by the waste management department at Stuttgart University, said that over half of the food thrown away in German households was still edible, prompting Aigner to call for a change in the way the population views and deals with food in the face of the world's ongoing problems with hunger.
Change in mentality
She said it was high time for Germans to realize that wasting food was "unacceptable at a time when hunger remained so predominant throughout the world," and that the government was ready to help provide the necessary information.
Vegetables make up the majority of food waste in Germany
The federal agriculture ministry is planning as part of its "too good for the bin" initiative a website where Germans can read about what foods are to be thrown away when, and what exactly is meant by the "best before date" (MHD) on all food products that could potentially expire.
"Obviously you throw away a banana when it's rotten," said Martin Kranert, chair of Stuttgart University's waste management department, when asked by DW what information Germans still lack with regard to food waste.
"But we found in our study that many people believed they should throw away products as soon as the MHD has expired. This is not at all the case, and such a persisting lack of knowledge is the first thing that has to change," Kranert said.
Wasting resources
The study also stressed the financial impact of throwing away usable products, concluding that the average German throws away some 235 euros per year, or 20 billion euros Germany-wide.
The BVE complained of Germany's 'throw-away culture'
Peter Feller, director of Germany's Federation of Food and Drink Industries (BVE), said that one of the reasons Germans throw away so much food is quite simply that food is "too cheap."
"Consumers wouldn't throw away as much food as they do if it cost more. Of course there are many reasons, but the cheapness of food products has certainly contributed to our throw-away culture," Feller said in an interview with DW.
The agriculture ministry has organized a symposium for the end of this month during which representatives from politics, business and NGOs are to go over ways to make information on food waste more accessible to the population.
Author: Gabriel Borrud
Editor: Joanna Impey
