There's an old lady (I hope she won't mind being called that) who has a lovely big garden with two enormous trees - one has apples and the other pears.The crop of apples has been poor this year, so I will concentrate on the pear tree which has produced a good crop. It is a big tree and there is no way that she can reach most of the pears, so she has to let them fall and collect them from the ground. The impact from even a reasonable height is enough to damage the fruit. Only a few people are able to visit her and collect some of the pears, which she is very happy to give away.
In the distant past the crop would have had some value to the local community, some people, perhaps youngsters, would have picked the pears. Someone may even have collected them and sold them. In our time they have no value. You cannot pay someone to pick them, perhaps you never could, but now most will go to waste. I don't have a problem with the concept of leaving some for the wildlife - that is entirely a good idea. What I object to is pears being flown across the world and sold to us, when we can't even be organised enough to take the crops we have. That is not taking good care of our world.
God provides everything for our sustenance. We just let the good things rot because we can't be bothered.
Everyone has a role to play and our personal choices make things happen on a grander scale (or not).
Worse, as pears go, they are very nice pears.
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