Category: Veganism

21
Sep
2010

India Adventure (15): Real Fresh Chicken

Turning these defenseless animals into egg-producing machines with no consideration for their welfare whatsoever is a degradation of our own…

17
Sep
2010

Some Support Is Better Than None

A conversation via instant messaging… Wyi: http://www.veganburg.com Wya: Yup, I know about it, but I have not got time to visit…

17
Sep
2010

Join the Kinder Side

Question: Though it is wrong to kill animals for meat, isn’t it the karma of these animals to be killed?…

02
Sep
2010

A Living Without Killing?

Q: Does a meat-seller (not a butcher), say a chicken rice hawker break the First Precept of not killing? He…

02
Sep
2010

Dissuading Against Shark-fin Consumption

There was a discussion with friends from Vegetarian Society over coverage of boycotting shark-fin soup for wedding dinners in the…

02
Aug
2010

Not Oversensitive

A friend had cultivated such powerful sensitivity to the slightest relatively unhealthy foods, that we often take for granted, that…

26
Jul
2010

Do Plants Feel Pain?

Q: Why eat plants? Don’t plants feel pain too? A: Plants are life forms but not sentient life – in…

21
Jul
2010

Spiritually Justifying Use of Animal Products?

Q: I once watched a Buddhist TV programme in a Taiwan in which the Master said that we should avoid…

19
Jul
2010

The Buddha’s Real Views on Meat-Eating

Dear Sir, Someone sent me the below article. Can you comment on it? Thank you. With Metta, AIA Hi AIA, …

15
Jul
2010

The Half-Truths of Mainstream Media?

A TV program showed how some ‘special cows’ were reared with good food and even music – to make them…

14
Jul
2010

Vegetarians are Originally Vegans!

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…

06
Jul
2010

Taiwan Adventure (9): Oh Deer!

A wholesale shop’s salesperson showed us a cellophane wrapped deer foetus, telling us that she is a ‘Buddhist’, and thinks…

05
Jul
2010

Shrine or Not?

Question: Can I set up a shrine of Guanyin Bodhisattva in my living/dining room if my family isn’t vegetarian? I’m…

28
Jun
2010

Eat Animal Bodhisattvas?

Since Bodhisattvas do manifest as animals at times (to help various beings), isn’t it a scary thought that the animals…

28
Jun
2010

The Greater Scope of Filial Piety

A parent laments that his Buddhist vegetarian child does not buy non-vegetarian food for him as an act of filial…

14
Jun
2010

Partial Compassion is Discrimination

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…

07
Jun
2010

Sacred Duty

Please don’t ask me to speak against animal liberation. Just as it is seen as a sacred duty for some…

31
May
2010

Be a Weekday Vegetarian at Least?

Do watch this short video (only 4 min long) It presents a simple but powerful concept that can change your…

24
May
2010

Liberation of Greed?

The Chinese man remarked that during the revolution, they used to eat pork only once a year. This he said,…

24
May
2010

No Way to Compare

A Tit for a Tat (138) Tit: You should try the mock sashimi. Tat: Why? Tit: Because it tastes amazingly…