[Live and let live conservative]

When I go out to eat, I do my part to reduce waste and keep costs down. If I go to, for example, a Cracker Barrell restaurant, I will tell the waitress not to bring biscuits with my meal. I don't mind biscuits but I can usually get full from the regular meal. No sense in wasting food. Everyone should practice this when they go out to eat.

What is the point of that? It's not like there is a finite amount of biscuits in the world and by not eating them some poor kid in Africa will get to eat your biscuit.

[MplsSteve]

The point is this:

Waste not, want not.

Why knowingly allow something to be put on your plate if you're not gonna eat it?

It's wasteful. Nothing more, nothing less.