| There was a time when people considered it natural to use and discard
anything and everything. We've since learned, however, that this leads to environmental destruction. Nowadays, recycling and using resources sparingly have become common-sense practices in industrialized countries. The only way we can conserve our irreplaceable, blue Earth is for each of us to make the effort to treat nature carefully. Despite the fact that people still suffer from hunger in many countries, people in affluent countries casually discard enormous amounts of left-over food every day. Leaving a meat or fish dish unfinished is nothing less than the deed of making light of and looking down on the lives of creatures that were sacrificed for mankind and of discarding them. These creatures are grilled or boiled, and then discarded in the end. It is human beings that pay no heed to this. That is not the only thing we should pay heed to. There must be people who work to raise cattle and pigs and those who must perform the work of slaughtering them. Fish reaches our tables thanks to the efforts of those who go to sea and the families who support them, praying for their safe return. Any and all products are the result of the labor of a certain number of people who made them. Producers must have infused their products with their desire for customers to be happy with the products. Also, there must be the great work of the nature in the production process. Reflecting like this, we have to say that wasting things is very cruel. Considering that even the tiniest of products is charged with a wealth of invisible and valuable things beneath the surface, even a child can understand that we should use things sparingly. Isn't it that, in addition to such an understanding of a child, a sense of gratitude grows in our minds as we become adults? |