It struck me
that the occasional ant
that crawls by my office desk
is not a bother…
Because I don’t really regard
this space as my place.
Then again,
nowhere is really my place -
not even the place I live in,
as everywhere is shared space
with other beings seen and unseen.
I am at peace with the ant as it is with me.
Cos not [...]

The girl standing, chatting with her friend at the bus-stop
stamps her feet once a while,
because ants crawl up them.
She does this again and again,
interrupting her conversation.
Bizarre!
Why not move out of the ants’ way?
Why intrude into their space?
Why punish them and the ants needlessly?
Do we do the same at times too?
Do we put others and ourselves [...]

Q: I have tried to avoid the killing of insects but realise that this is impossible. I therefore consider that the results of such killings could give minor results such as the little sufferings we get from insect bites.
A: Have you tried the path of Metta (Loving-kindness) to avoid killing? This the [...]

Q: Why eat plants? Don’t plants feel pain too?
A: Plants are life forms but not sentient life – in the sense that the are not complex enough (e.g. have no nervous system) to feel pain. For example, a chicken that is about to be slaughtered feels fear and suffers under the knife, but this does [...]

A TV program showed how some ‘special cows’ were reared with good food and even music – to make them feel relaxed. They are even periodically massaged! Brings another new meaning to ‘creature comforts’? There are also stringent procedures for ensuring tip-top hygiene to keep the cows disease-free…
But ultimately, for whose benefit? [...]

In the movie ‘Triple Tap’,
there is a an end scene with two guys
freeing the fish they caught into the sea,
as they laugh with each other.
I hope the laughter was at their foolishness of having fished,
and that it means they will never fish again.
Is it cool and gracious to let the fish go?
Of course!
But it is [...]

Here is a very interesting piece of news from Vegetarian Society Singapore’s newsletter at http://www.vegetarian-society.org/node/1362#05 :
The first people who called themselves ‘vegetarian’ were in fact vegan. This has now been established conclusively with resources not previously available. We have now shown that until 1847 *all* uses of the word ‘vegetarian’ came from people associated with [...]

Ironically, though non-vegetarian non-nature-lovers are less compassionate
than non-vegetarian nature-lovers who protect selective animals,
they are less discriminative as they don’t bother about all animals in general,
other than wanting to eat some of them.
Every animal needlessly facing the knife
for someone’s meal is an endangered animal,
even if there are millions of them [e.g. chickens].
- Stonepeace
Related Article:
Something Interesting about [...]

Please don’t ask me to speak against animal liberation.
Just as it is seen as
a sacred duty for some
to properly kill many animals for sacrifices,
it is regarded as
a sacred duty for some
to properly free many animals for their welfare.
Please don’t ask me to speak against animal liberation.
Related Article:
Articles on Animal Liberation
http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/05/articles-on-animal-liberation

Last night, on ‘The Noose’, there was a TV clip spoofing the Rony Tan video saga. Instead of talking about Buddhism, the subject was laughing at vegetarianism. It’s funny, but it unfortunately perpetuates some misconceptions. An interviewee spoke of how he asked his family why they were vegetarians. It turned out that [...]