‎ ‘Hi guys, i need to ask you a huge favor. Please circulate this photo on your Facebook profiles and send it to your friends. We need to find these people and make them pay for the abuse and pain they are inflicting on innocent animals. We don’t know what country they are at,...

I can’t remember which comic the above panel is from. A vampire (if I remember correctly) laments to a vampire slayer, ‘We eat to survive! Do you avenge for cows and fish too? What have we done wrong? Who are you to judge us?’ Not that there are real vampires, if I become...

A reply to a Buddhist friend, who chose to get pest control to exterminate lice-like insects that plagued her house, which bit her family members badly too. They were traced to being centred on baby birds hidden in a pipe… Very often, struggle as we might to see all sentient beings as...

True that shark fin is quite tasteless and lacking in nutrition. 1. Every animal that is killed needlessly was in its last moments an endangered one - even if not in terms of the species. (Applies to humans too.) 2. Every animal killed for any other parts or all of its parts is still a victim...

If Caesar* was ‘dumb’, he would be downtrodden, discriminated. If Caesar was ‘normal’, he would be neglected, discriminated. If Caesar was ‘smart’, he would be feared, discriminated. * Caesar is a highly ‘evolved’ ape in ‘The Rise of the...

Is an endangered species (vampires) that endangers another species (humans) justified? If vampires exist and are endangered, would humans strive to protect and feed them? Is it monstrous to kill monsters, or to not kill monsters? Humans endanger other species too, while protecting some. Why...

The moral of Kafka’s short story ‘The Metamorphosis’ eluded me for some time. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis for outline) About the terror and tragedy of a man morphing into a bug and being ostracised by others,what embedded messages are there? I ...

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...

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...

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...

DHARMA@CINEMA: School Days with a Pig (Strictly by registration only) A movie screening and sharing by Shen Shi’an Based on a controversial true story that swept across Japan, a rookie primary school teacher suggests his students to raise a pig before eating him, so as to learn ‘the real...

< Movie poster for Singapore The award-winning movie ‘School Days with a Pig’ tells of a teacher’s special project for his class of grade 6 students to learn more deeply about the connection between life and food – by raising a piglet together, before eventually...

Humans are often full of self-contradictions. When they see beached whales, they try to keep them moist, to transport them to deep waters for liberating them back into the seas. It’s a humongous rescue mission, but they see the worth of it. However, probably most of the same humans...