中国的餐馆食物浪费根源大多数在公款吃喝，自己掏钱的，多都打包。德国的故事，10年前就在网上流传了，供参考：
此文历史非常悠久，出现在2000年左右、欧元尚未正式流通时。这篇某人在屋里凭空想象出来的“国际经验”文章，当时虽然有一定的“教育意义”，但是去过德国的中国人都知道这种事情是子虚乌有。“社会保障机构”有权罚款吗?“工作人员”居然伸手拿现金！
下面引文标出的红字，无一不是充满了某些国人对自己的不自信、和对欧美一厢情愿的想象。特别是“白人老太太”——为了充分说明老太太“抠门行为”的正当性，生怕读者不理解，刻意强调“白人”两个字。仿佛告诉大家：嗯，下面的文字描写的是白人（雅利安人！日尔曼民族！ ），所以大家不要笑、要严肃，她们的行为是我准备拿来当作标本的……真活脱一副XX的嘴脸。难怪人之所以比别人矮，那是因为他自己先下跪了。“在这样一个发达国家，人们的生活一定是纸醉金迷灯红酒绿吧。 ” ——这样的笔触怎么看都像一个上世纪80年代出国的人的口吻，貌似作者是喜欢模仿这样的口气，呵呵。
批判这篇狗屁文章的目的绝不是说，我们应该铺张浪费；相反，我主张在这方面学习德国。
但主文的论证方法实在太愚蠢，太可笑了。
作者要编也编得像一点，不要以为随便扯一个“政治正确”的理由，再诌两句国际如何如何、国外如何如何，就是一篇好文章。
我本人就在德国，我可以告诉楼主三点：
1. 德国社会非常节约，这点完全值得我们所有人学习。所以作者编造这篇文章的立意也许是对的；
2. 德国是一个恪守法治的国家。你们在餐厅铺张浪费，大手大脚，这属于道德问题，会被德国人所鄙视，但没有任何一个公权力机关会来开罚单干涉。因为这种行为涉及到公权力对私法上的契约自由的限制，而一但在这种限制上打开了缺口，那么整个社会的民主性、自由性，包括整个国家的法治性（德文叫 Rechtstaatlichkeit）将会大打折扣。德国机关宁可看见你们浪费一吨饭，也不会为这个而来开罚单，因为这等于为了制止你们的浪费而将整个国家拉回“国家可以为了良好的目的而任意干涉公民的生活”的状态，而这种状态意味着什么？经历过第二次世界大战的德国人非常清楚。
从作者的文章来看，作者可能并不真正理解了先进国家关于反铺张浪费的思维方式，而用典型的大陆式的思维越俎代庖了。
实际上，在西方国家，公权力行为的正当性是与行为的目的、行为的手段、行为的程序息息相关的。不能因为某个公法行为“出发点是好的”，公民就对它纵容，而放弃了法治的监督。
只要某个公法行为在某一个道德观念上占据了制高点，就可以不顾法定程序、不顾行为的适当性，而是打着美丽的旗号奋不顾身地勇往直前，甚至效果适得其反还不回头，这是中国式的做法，不是德国的。
德国的浪费也是很惊人的，政府正在着手治理：
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
