The comic strip (from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) above illustrates classic ignorance about vegetarianism and rationalisation for meat-eating. While we know that it’s near impossible to have an absolute guilt-free meals, the best thing is to minimise killing for food. If you think that it’s murder when many small animals and insects are killed when [...]

When we were younger, our dreams to save the world was huge. But as we grew up, we easily find ourselves distanced from our ‘heroic’ ambition. Had a chat with an old friend recently about our supposed big dream, about how we drifted so far apart from what we wanted to do. Now, we are [...]

I’m very grateful to this bag, which was sent by friend from France
along with some organic vegan foodstuffs a few years ago.
It has saved me from using many an environmentally-unfriendly plastic bag.
It’s also thin enough to be folded and stuffed in my back pocket like a hanky.
You should consider getting and using one too!

We try to make efforts to buy as much eco-friendly products as possible, even though the costs of some are steep (due to being lower on demand and the higher cost in mindful production). Recently, we came across ‘Seventh Generations’ products in our neighbourhood supermart (Fairprice). We were pleasantly surprised that Fairprice would bring in [...]

A colleague was urging another colleague to give up pork by claiming that pigs eat everything and anything, including their own faeces. I told her that’s probably the case for many animals, as their living conditions before slaughter are horrifying – cramped up with little space to move about, stepping on the waste of one [...]

Yesterday, I took a brisk walk through the Vesak @ Orchard food fair. To my great disappointment, the organisation was using the usual non eco-friendly to package food. I remember vividly that wasn’t the case for last year, when biodegradable and recyclable packaging was used, while the packaging was designed with reasons why going vegetarian [...]