Category: Veganism

“Hundreds of thousands of baby male chicks are either ground up alive or discarded like trash to die more slowly,…

He believes his meat-eating teacher can ‘deliver’ the beings eaten to Pure Land. If this is true, shouldn’t he eat…

An event’s marketing material: ‘Vesak Day Carnival: Loving the World!… Food Fun: … Vegetarian & Non-Vegetarian… let’s increase our awareness…

A Buddhist friend (Er… who could be reading this… but here it goes…) posted a photo of a grilled animal…

There was a retreat in a Buddhist centre recently, which concluded, so I’ve heard, with a ‘pizza train’ celebration –…

Related to ‘A Vegan Challenge’: https://moonpointer.com/new/2011/12/a-vegan-challenge, this got reflected in VSS’s (Vegetarian Society Singapore) latest newsletter – ‘So Frail and…

D: Meat-eating is considered an act of cruelty by vegetarians. For non-vegetarians, meat-eating is generally considered a social norm and…

S: Most who like to eat meat ironically don’t want a single animal killed for them. Strange isn’t it, to…

A relative had a nightmare, where many people leapt in to a fire, as a ‘gift for god’. They claim…

Question: Some friends said Buddhists should refrain from playing badminton as shuttlecocks are made from bird feathers. What is your…

An acquaintance P sent me this: ‘I saw J today. He looks so frail and weak and I think his…

Talking at length about perfecting compassion is inadequate if one does not even think of sparing animals from meals as…

I heard from a Buddhist friend, who professes to be vegetarian every day except for a single weekday, when he…

Sometimes, when I encourage Buddhist friends to go easy on eating animals and their produce, I’m asked to ‘let go’….

I came across two strange sentiments about eating animals: 1. ‘As long as the Buddha is in my heart, eating…

Question: Would you say that reciting Om Mani Padme Hung is similar to the practice of metta meditation in that it…

A Tit for a Tat (339) Tit: I crapped out all the dairy cookies I accidentally ate yesterday. Tat: Lactose…

I see an old friend, who became Buddhist before I did, walking through a food court. I thought he was…

‎ ‘Hi guys, i need to ask you a huge favor. Please circulate this photo on your Facebook profiles and…

Question: If farmed animals are not bred in farms and wild animals are not caged in zoos, will they be…