Tag: Veganism

21
Dec
2011

Vegan Badminton

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

13
Dec
2011

A Vegan Challenge

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

14
Nov
2011

Actions Speak Louder

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

01
Nov
2011

Why Not Fully Vegetarian (Vegan)?

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

18
Oct
2011

Letting Go Of Animal Stuff

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

12
Oct
2011

Rationalisations for Eating Animals

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

12
Oct
2011

Metta Or Mantra?

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

03
Oct
2011

What Crap!

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

03
Oct
2011

What Animals for Dinner?

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

03
Oct
2011

Beyond Poor Puppies & Chickens

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

27
Sep
2011

Can Trapping & Killing Animals Be Justified?

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

27
Sep
2011

Beyond One Cow

Question: On the article ‘The Cabbage & the Cow’ at http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/09/the-cabbage-the-cow , I think we should simply be grateful to have food to…

27
Sep
2011

Real Fast Food

I saw someone wearing this t-shirt. It’s meant to be a ‘fun’ way of re-interpreting what ‘fast food’ is, but…

21
Sep
2011

Health

We don’t need meat for our health, while animals need THEIR meat for THEIR health.

20
Sep
2011

Green Mark Award for Black Marked Business

What a joke! What good is a green building if it serves the least green food – animal produce? What…

12
Sep
2011

Who Are You To Judge?

I can’t remember which comic the above panel is from. A vampire (if I remember correctly) laments to a vampire…

12
Sep
2011

Beyond Glass Walls

‘If slaughterhouses have glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.’ (Paul Mc Cartney) Loudspeakers too please! If slaughterhouses have no walls,…

12
Sep
2011

Insanity of Eating Shark Fin Soup

True that shark fin is quite tasteless and lacking in nutrition. 1. Every animal that is killed needlessly was in…

07
Sep
2011

Okay To Kill The Unconscious?

A Tit for a Tat (332) Tet: Isn’t it okay to kill animals for food if they are rendered unconscious…

31
Aug
2011

Sour Cream

Other than the fact that sour cream is made by robbing calves of milk from mother cows, another good reason…