This is why master shen kai recommends 护身 (protection of
animals) than 放身 (releasing animals)
If we wish to release animals, we have to make sure others don’t
catch them back as a business (some people capture animals for
people to release), and we must make sure they are released into
habitable place otherwise it will kill them. Otherwise rather than
releasing animals, we are killing them instead.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/featuren…
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TAIPEI – Tens of millions of animals,
mostly fish and birds, are dying every year in Taiwan because of
so-called “mercy releases” by Buddhists trying to improve their
karma, according to animal welfare activists.
The government is now planning to ban the practice, saying it
damages the environment and that a large proportion of the 200
million or so creatures released each year die or are injured due
to a lack of food and habitat.
Around 750 such ceremonies are carried out in Taiwan each year,
according to the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan.
Negotiations have seen some groups agreeing to halt the
practice, but others have yet to accept a ban, Lin Kuo-chang, an
official from the government’s Council of Agriculture, told
AFP on Sunday.
Proposed amendments to current wildlife protection laws would
see offenders facing up to two years in jail or fined up to 2.5
million Taiwan dollars (US$85,000) for such unauthorised releases,
he said.
- AFP/ir