What do you think someone your age can do to help reduce the amount of pollution in our environment?

In the past few decades, as the planet we live on getting more and more crowded. Levels of air, noise and sight pollution are all rising higher and higher. It’s hard to write down in details where do all these pollution come from. But today I’m pollution in our environment? going to tell one of the phenomenons I found since my arrival to the United States---waste of food.

It was an extreme cultural shock to me of the servings of food here are so huge when I just arrived America. At that time I was always struggling whether to finish them or not. However, what surprised me more is that most of the people here won’t finish their food. This is not only happening in the restaurant that serves regular size of each meal. In the dining hall I lived in, which serves food that you can choose whatever the amount you want, these horrible scenes are even happening in a higher degree. People often filled their plate entirely full with all kinds of food. And then ended up with lots of leftovers. In the culture where we come from, people doing these wasting movements are said to be ended up in hell, finishing all of the food they waste through their entire life. It may be a religious tail. But I always consider it a respect to the hard working farmers or any people who produce food.

But why is wasting food polluting the environment? It’s because at the moment you consume, or waste more food. Someone else will need to produce more food to meet you demand. The other day I read an article which is warning people about the severe situations of food consuming. The author shows some statistics such as for every pound of beef produced, 2,500 pounds of water must be consumed, and that happens in a rate of 60 pounds for every grain produced. How many water consuming would it be if these cows were feed by grains? This article also states that a single dairy cow produces the same amount of wet manure as twenty to forty people. This is very harmful to the environment, especially very toxic to human beings since it pollutes the water we live on.

As I have shown, I think if student like us want to do something good to protect our environment, they should at least try to finish their food and try hard not to take too much food that they can’t even finish at all.

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Hello everyone~~
My name is Chen-Yu Lin. Or you guys can feel free to call mw Michael. I'm an exchange student from Taiwan!!! And in an engineering program. My major is ME, which is mechanical science and engineering. However, half of my classes are not in engineering. One of them is ESL114, that's why I'm here introducing myself. And the other is an art studio class called jewelry and materials. It's a very interesting class that teach you the techniques we need to obtain as an jeweler. Ofcourse, at the beginning we learn only basic ones!

My hometown Taichung, which is at the central of Taiwan, is the 3rd biggest city in my country. It's famous with it's delicious foods(yumyum, I missed them alot) and extremely good weather. I have a sister who is older then me and her majoris music. She loves graphic design alot and is currently doing much poster and book's design works. My father works in Shanghai and we visits him every winter and summer vacation.

Well..at the end~~hope we all have a great time in this English class!!!