Q: Why eat plants? Don’t plants feel pain too? A: Plants are life forms but not sentient life – in the sense that they 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 [...]

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? To create [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 it was not [...]

If a handful of people dislike those of another race and rant against their ways, this doesn’t mean that the quiet majority perceives similar ‘problems’ as them, as they are far from being equally racist. In the same light, it is the speciesist few who cannot make peace with animals as harmless as pigeons, who [...]

I don’t eat dead animals because that supports killing them, with demand for their meat. That’s why I’m vegetarian. I don’t eat produce of living animals because that supports torturing them, before being killed. That’s why I’m (actually) vegan.

Don’t talk about your ‘great wisdom’ if you do not have the slightest compassion for the weakest beings. Don’t talk about your ‘great wisdom’ like it is all that matters, like it is separate from being kind, because compassion is the way of the wise.

Something interesting about some nature-lovers is that they protect certain animals while eating other animals. It’s speciesism, partial compassion. Something interesting about some Earth-lovers is that they protect the environment while eating many animals in it. It’s segregation of fauna from flora. Still, it is better than not loving any flora at all, not loving [...]

It is not that I disrespect your offering that I refuse to take your meat, but that I respect animals such, to not wish to eat them, even after they are killed, lest you think it doesn’t matter. It is not that I disrespect you that I refuse to take your meat, but that I [...]

Vegetarians and vegans are often accused of being attached to their choice of food. In many cases, this is a serious misunderstanding – as we can see below… Please don’t think that I’m having ‘a lot of attachment’ in actively speaking for vegetarianism. Please do realise that I am only conveying ‘a fraction of attachment’ [...]

I have to speak up for animals because they can’t speak for themselves. I have to speak up for animals because they are mother sentient beings too. I have to speak up for animals because any one of us can be reborn as animals too. First They Came… They came first for the Communists, and [...]