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There Is Dignity in Eating.

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Last updated: October 18, 2023 5:02 am
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Published: October 18, 2023
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There is also dignity in eating. Yes you read me well. If you were taken aback or amused by what you’ve just read, it’s not your fault, you, like everyone of us, is a victim of a culture that finds fulfilment in delegitimising pleasure and legitimising pain as though pleasure, like pain, isn’t a legitimate component of human existential reality.

“You eat a lot,” “all you do is eat,” “you like food so much” – deriding statements like these are pervasively commonplace in our determined attempt to demean food and eating. But when we talk about food in this way, we’re often merely hypocritical rather than being true to ourselves.

Children, unlike we adults, are true to themselves when it comes to food; adult are captives to pretence. When food is being served at events, adults feign indifference, but once the servers mistakingly don’t serve them fairly or fail to serve them at all, their love for food, which is concealed under the repressive hold of pretence, begins to force itself out by way of bitter complaints and verbal aggressions. In less frequent instances, our “food-despising” adults have fought for food publicly

Decent living is about moderation. We should censure people when they go overboard in the amount of food they eat, but we should not fail to do same when they overwork themselves. But this is not the case in our world where foodie is derogatory but workaholic is a compliment. If immoderate eating harms the body, too much work kills the body!

Our glorification of work is roundly hypocritical. While we pretend to love the pain associated with work, it’s the truth that all human effort to advance technology over the centuries has been geared towards one goal – lessening of work and the pain associated with it. Why is it that when we celebrate yam we eat a lot of yam, when we celebrate music we play abundance of it, when we celebrate dance we dance a lot, but when we celebrate work (May Day) we rest from work? Work is pain!

Eating is a most basic natural need without which we cannot live, hence it’s incongruous to talk about it as though it’s a mere frivolous past time. Eating is one natural craving that should be indulged, there is nothing shaming or dishonourable about it.

There’s dignity in eating!

This is my meditation this midweek.

Henry Chigozie Duru, PhD, teaches journalism and mass communication at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.

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16 Comments
  • Ayonike Ogunbiyi says:
    October 18, 2023 at 5:54 am

    No doubt, we’ve dignified pain and suffering more than the free gift of nature. This is indeed a wake up call to appreciate nature cravings; my perspective has changed, I can now relish my meals without guilt of weighing the amount of hardwork to the cravings of food. Thank you Doc for sharing this wonderful meditation.

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  • Ugochukwu Peace says:
    October 18, 2023 at 8:05 am

    Inspiring nuggets!
    Keep blazing the trail sir.

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  • Uzoagba Ogochukwu says:
    October 18, 2023 at 9:16 am

    Interesting facts, well articulated!

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  • Orjiako Linda says:
    October 18, 2023 at 9:53 am

    I love this write up especially where you mentioned people calling other people names because of food. I have been called “foodie” countless times. I love food especially when I cook it myself. There is no shame in that. I just wish all foods were healthy. You use palm oil, they say it has too much cholesterol. You use meat, they say white meat is healthier. When cooking now you are cautious of every ingredient which in a way mar the joy of cooking and of course eating. No one can survive without food so why the pretense.

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  • Onyinye Okolo says:
    October 18, 2023 at 10:58 am

    “We should censure people when they go overboard in the amount of food they eat, but we should not fail to do same when they overwork themselves.”

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  • Yours'Adaorable says:
    October 18, 2023 at 1:53 pm

    My favorite part is “work is pain”.

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  • Chukwudubem Umeora says:
    October 18, 2023 at 2:20 pm

    “Children, unlike we adults, are true to themselves when it comes to food; adult are captives to pretence”

    I always look forward to reading your writeups. It is inspiring to see how gifted one could be with the Pen.

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  • Charlie Onebunne says:
    October 18, 2023 at 6:24 pm

    Good one. Dr. carry on. Amen.

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  • Uju Onuchukwu says:
    October 18, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    There is time for everything, when it comes to foodie don’t pretend .

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  • Chizoba says:
    October 19, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    Very nice one, Dr.

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  • Ndu Okpalaeze says:
    October 20, 2023 at 6:03 am

    Eating food makes for growth and healthy living, but adults appear to be at a loss now because they are warned about ‘eating right’, ‘healthy eating’ and stuffs like that.
    These tend to keep the adult especially away from most food they enjoy eating in the past.
    Thanks for raising this concern@Prof.

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  • vivian Dera Nweze says:
    October 20, 2023 at 6:53 am

    This is nice!

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  • Chisom vivian says:
    October 23, 2023 at 7:29 am

    Interesting master piece. Ride on sir

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  • ABWO N. SIMON says:
    October 25, 2023 at 10:22 am

    In fact I keep reviewing this piece like eh…I just love this aspect of your Write up Doc!!!

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  • Ogechukwu says:
    November 5, 2023 at 12:54 pm

    I totally agree with you🤣🤣

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  • Miracle Opara. says:
    November 6, 2023 at 5:32 am

    This is one of my best writing; Adult been captivates to pretence when it comes to food

    We rest when we celebrate work day on May ; This highly critical and interesting. I love it

    Reply

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