Category: Veganism

It’s hard to know for how long animals’ consciousness can linger after being slaughtered. If an animal is attached to…

A Tit for a Tat (298) Tit: (Looking at TV) Look! The animals about to be killed are sad! Tut:…

Is continual and indirect paying of others to break the first precept (to kill animals for you to eat) itself…

Should veg*ns patronise veg*n or non-veg*n places more? If we order veg*n food in a non-veg*n restaurant, will we urge…

Is an endangered species (vampires) that endangers another species (humans) justified? If vampires exist and are endangered, would humans strive…

A Buddhist centre with ‘Bodhicitta’ in its name barbecued dead animals during its gathering after its annual general meeting. Maybe…

A Tit for a Tat (222) Tit: He said he can’t live without tuna! Tat: Well, the tuna he eats…

Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are like us’. Ask the…

This is the traditional verse for recitation to express repentance: 忏悔文 Verse for Repentance 往昔所造诸恶业 For all the evil deeds…

Imagine coming home, to realise your treasured stuff gone! That’s how bees feel when their honey is stolen! Imagine coming…

Do you mind not calling me extreme… because I don’t support the cutting of any animal’s throat? because I don’t…

An extended dialogue: S: Is it possible to use soy milk as one of the auspicious offering items instead of…

Below is the Japanese version of ‘Call Us By Our True Names’, as featured in the e-newsletter of Japan Vegetarian Society…

To Be Truly All-Embracing He presented himself to be free, free even to eat anything, open in an all-embracing way. But…

I used to take western medicine in general when I got sick, before I became vegan. After I became vegan,…

This graph is funny yet generally true! Perhaps the Buddha already knew this, which is why he specifically used the…

A friend found what (Khadi) seems to be a more ethical form of silk available in India, made from silk…

A Tit for a Tat (167) Tit: She’s gradually quitting meat-eating. Tat: Cutting but not cut? Tit: Yes – not…

Just sent this to the press: I refer to the letter ‘”No meat, no fish” ideology can disturb eco balance’…

At a wedding lunch of a friend, two of us were served vegetarian food. We took a peek at the…