Catholic group wastes whole uncooked chicken for game at retreat!!!

Today we were leaving the Catholic Youth Centre after our meeting and we noticed that a church was having a youth retreat. The youths were playing Captain's Ball in the field. We thought it was interesting as the ball didn't look like a ball. Curious we took a closer look. To our surprise, we realised that the ball was acutally a whole uncooked chicken... Then surprise turned into disgust as we realised that the chicken was getting torn and thrown all over the grass... obviously not to be consumed...

ok but we won't judge lah... maybe they did cook and eat the whole chicken in the end...despite it's final condition by the end of the game. Also I'm not going to mention which parish this was.

This seems to be the in-thing now especially at orientation games for JCs, Polys and Unis. I know from people who have attended such orientation the food used gets thrown away, beyond consumption standards.

If you're a Catholic/Christian read this... for your own soul... one of the seven deadly sins.

Guttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food, or its withholding from the needy.
If you have a different religion I'm sure that your religion also frowns on the above mentioned. If you have values and morals, your conscience would tell you this is wrong.


World Hunger and Poverty: How They Fit Together
862 million people across the world are hungry, up from 852 million a year ago. 3

Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.

In essence, hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, where individuals or families cannot afford to meet their most basic need for food. 1

Hunger manifests itself in many ways other than starvation and famine. Most poor people who battle hunger deal with chronic undernourishment and vitamin or mineral deficiencies, which result in stunted growth, weakness and heightened susceptibility to illness.

Countries in which a large portion of the population battles hunger daily are usually poor and often lack the social safety nets we enjoy, such as soup kitchens, food stamps, and job training programs. When a family that lives in a poor country cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, there is nowhere to turn for help.

Taken from http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html


Hunger exists not only in 3rd world countries. Hunger exists in Singapore too. When we went on our 1st Angel Network outreach we had loads of food to give away. We didnt just give the food. We met families, individuals, elderly who shared their stories with us. One family shared that usually non-profit groups give them canned sardines, baked beans, square biscuits, milo, salt, sauces, oil, beehooon, rice. Treats would be canned chicken curry or rendang. What were luxuries for them? Eggs, chicken, pork, fish, milk, sausages, Jacob biscuits. What about prawns, sotong, crab???

I remember buying a whole chicken for a family once. The mum was delighted. The family of 6 would ration the chicken for at least 3 meals. Another time we included eggs for another family. The kids were so happy to get them.

If orientation groups really want to use food to break the ice, why not. But please don't use food to throw at each other. Imagine a group member having to play such a game, a member whose family can't afford chicken for lunch or dinner.

Suggestion for orientation activities where food can be used:
1. Organize an outreach to distribute chicken, eggs, meat, fish to families who are in need. It's easy to spot these households. Contact acts29 if you need tips...
2. Help at the soup kitchen of St Michael's Church or Nativity Church, daily food prepared for the poor.
3. Contact Archdiocesan Commission for Migrants and Itinerant People. They need people to spot new construction sites and people to deliver food to these sites (usually for new foreign workers)
4. Go to Serangoon Road, give lunch to the foreign workers you meet. Most of them earn so little a day that they can only afford rice and some lentils/plain curry.
5. Contact Gift of Love Home run by the Missionaries of Charity Sisters (by Mother Teresa) and sponsor a meal for the elderly residents.
5. There are so many other places who would welcome food.

Feel free to contact acts29 for more details.

Also acts29 would like to invite the Catholic Chicken-Throwing Youths to our annual 24hour FAST (For Asia Solidarity Together). This is held in Lent. So do join us next March. This is a time for young people to actively work together to eradicate poverty and hunger in Asia and also eradicate gluttony in our affluent country.

God bless