Processed Food - Wasting Electricity and Water

Most of the processed food use unnecessary resources like water, electricity, labor, land, finances to manufacture something which has 1> value addition only in taste and value deletion in nutrition, cost, health, economies of scale and social and national economy. 

2> Unnecessary Large scale Food processing industries take away the whole business from cottage industries or co-operative societies which are apt for such food products.

 3> Plus Marketing cost for big economies becomes a big percentage of total cost of a food product.

4> Plus it is healthy, preferable and worthy to promote  to eat  /consume - regional and seasonal  foods beacause it is healthy

Whenever  certain sector of economy are over organized and with wrongly high economies of scale, it takes away jobs and resources from people who ought to be in these jobs and businesses.

For Example, in making juice (simple example) even small hotelier uses so much of water and electricity , and dilutes or kills the nutrition value of fruits.  

For example , instead of eating  biscuits, children can be given sheera (suji ka halwa) directly made from home made industry.
Bottled aerated drinks use 10 bottles of water for one product  bottle. 


Promoting not-much-processed food is healthy for the health of people and reduces private, individual, public medical costs.


Promoting regional and seasonal food will give market to regional producers, local market chain and will reduce transportation cost.


This does not stop us  to use technology for preservation, refrigeration, processing etc. when it is necessary and investments can be welcome for that.

Bankim Shah