The true reality behind farmed animals bred for food

CP25 SG

{Double Post}

CP25 SG

Hi all,

Just need a help from all of you. I started this post out of extreme sympathy and compassion for all the billions of farmed animals that we are breeding for food (ie: the various kinds of meat found on the plates of humans every single day, including eggs and dairy milk products) after doing some self-research. Be it cows, pigs, chickens, goats, geese, ducks, turkeys, lambs, sheeps etc.

I can't stop crying when I saw all the suffering that these animals are going through every day before being sent to the slaughter houses, as well as those animals exploited for their eggs and milk. I really CANT imagine their pain and agony, and that we, humans are oblivious to the suffering and torture we have brought upon them.

Please visit these websites to find out more and experience their pain:

- www.factoryfarming.com
- www.sentientbeings.org
- www.cok.net
- www.noveal.org
- www.bancruelfarms.org
- www.farmsanctuary.org
- www.nodowners.org
- www.farmanimalshelters.org
- www.poultry.org/tyson.htm (this links to a detailed testimonial of a worker working in the chickens slaughter house]

For videos on the farmed animals sufferings, please go to:

- http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/photos_video.htm

- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6598954012979330894

(the 2nd video above shows investigation carried out by compassionate consumers members on egg-laying farms / battery hens farms, and u will know where your eggs came from)

To read about the emotional life of farmed animals, please read this excellent tear-wrenching book, "THE PIG WHO SANG TO THE MOON from Jeffrey Masson.(google the book title to read reviews, and its sold online at www.kinokuniya.com.sg)

I know most of the forumites on this "Buddhism" forum is compassionate, and I sincerely plead that you all can also help by:

1. spreading the awareness of the cruel farming practices to everyone you see by showing them the videos and let them know that our meat are obtained from such terrible conditions and not to buy / eat meat or any other animal products such as eggs and milk at all;

2. encourage vegetarian eating among all your friends;

3. let's pray and chant for the souls of these farmed animals, hoping that they get a better rebirth;

I am really grealty saddened and horrified to learn that all these gruesome murders are taking place behind slaughter houses and that these beautiful beings are totally deprived of their basic living needs before they die for our selfish purpose of satisfying our 3-inch tongue and tastebuds!

PLEASE HELP TO SPREAD THE AWARENESS, EDUCATE YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY & PROMOTE VEGETARIAN EATING. Thank you all.

An Eternal Now SG

Hi, thanks for sharing these.. I hope the 'culture' of compassion for animals can gradually grow and become as successful as India... where a large portion or half their population are vegetarians. Certainly there are many horrific things these animals are made to undergo and suffer that normal people are unaware of and that is very sad. I helped you link the URLs Smile

...In gladness and in safety,
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born,
May all beings be at ease!...

(Metta Sutra)

CP25 SG

Hi Moderator,

Thanks for the help. It's through people like you that we can build a compassionate and loving world for our animals and all beings. Wink

sunny6110 SG

U believed in ying guo bao ying?

fan shi mo qiang qiu

Fatum SG

I'm sorry, I love eating meat too much to stop ... Embarassed

coolbluewater SG

Originally posted by CP25:
Hi all,

Just need a help from all of you. I started this post out of extreme sympathy and compassion for all the billions of farmed animals that we are breeding for food (ie: the various kinds of meat found on the plates of humans every single day, including eggs and dairy milk products) after doing some self-research. Be it cows, goats, chickens, goats, geese, ducks, turkeys, lambs, sheeps etc.

I can't stop crying when I saw all the suffering that these animals are going through every day before being sent to the slaughter houses, as well as those animals exploited for their eggs and milk. I really CANT imagine their pain and agony, and that we, humans are oblivious to the suffering and torture we have brought upon them.

[b]Please visit these websites to find out more and experience their pain:

- www.factoryfarming.com
- www.sentientbeings.org
- www.cok.net
- www.noveal.org
- www.bancruelfarms.org
- www.farmsanctuary.org
- www.nodowners.org
- www.farmanimalshelters.org
- www.poultry.org/tyson.htm (this links to a detailed testimonial of a worker working in the chickens slaughter house]

For videos on the farmed animals sufferings, please go to:

- http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/photos_video.htm

- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6598954012979330894

(the 2nd video above shows investigation carried out by compassionate consumers members on egg-laying farms / battery hens farms, and u will know where your eggs came from)

To read about the emotional life of farmed animals, please read this excellent tear-wrenching book, "THE PIG WHO SANG TO THE MOON from Jeffrey Masson.(google the book title to read reviews, and its sold online at www.kinokuniya.com.sg)

I know most of the forumites on this "Buddhism" forum is compassionate, and I sincerely plead that you all can also help by:

1. spreading the awareness of the cruel farming practices to everyone you see by showing them the videos and let them know that our meat are obtained from such terrible conditions and not to buy eggs at all;

2. encourage vegetarian eating among all your friends;

3. let's pray and chant for the souls of these farmed animals, hoping that they get a better rebirth;

I am really grealty saddened and horrified to learn that all these gruesome murders are taking place behind slaughter houses and that these beautiful beings are totally deprived of their basic living needs before they die for our selfish purpose of satisfying our 3-inch tongue and tastebuds!

PLEASE HELP TO SPREAD THE AWARENESS, EDUCATE YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY & PROMOTE VEGETARIAN EATING. Thank you all.
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I applaud your effort to post this, in the spirit of Vegetarianism. There are now loads of alternatives, which has made eating meat a plain wants rather than needs. This is why 14th Dalai Lama, 17th Karmapa and Mahayan great practitioners has public advocated vegetarianism, and emphasised the importance of to cultivating compassion towards all sentient beings. Like you, I firmly believed that the death place of an an animal should be in the while, not in our abbatoir. Be it cruel killing or not, the animals were petrified when they see the knife that will slit their throat, and it is plain human selfishness that we are putting them through these ordeal.

An Eternal Now SG

Precisely because of the horrendous karmic consequences that the world is creating from killing zillions of animals every year, we really need to promote non violence and compassion to animals. Such a large scale killing will result in heavy collective karma and can cause many disasters. It is also a cause of so many wars around the world. The animals we kill may return to fight with us in war in the future. That's why it is said,

For hundreds of thousands of years, the stew in the pot
Has boiled up a resentment very hard to level.
If you want to know why there are calamities and wars in the world,
Just listen to the sounds from a slaughterhouse at midnight.

cycle SG

Hi CP25, you are definitely a compassionate person becos you truly understand the meaning of not eating meat. Pls continue to cultivate such quality of compassion.

Hi Sunny6110, of cos as Buddhists we believe in Ying guo bao ying; which is exactly why we should stop all killings. Eating meat is indirectly or directly one of the actions of killing. When we are eating the animals, yes, we can say it is the animals' ying guo bao ying; but while eating them, we ourselves are also planting a cause for our own ying guo bao ying in the future ( can be in this lifetime thru illness or diseases like mad cow disease, bird flu, various virus etc.)

We can only say that it is very difficult for a meat eater to change his diet to become a vegetarain overnight. But we should try, albeit slowly, as what Buddha has taught some of his diciples before. Cultivate compassion at the same time, and we will one day refuse meat completely naturally.

My way is to start with giving up one type of meat at a time. Eg. stop eating beef first ( which many chinese have already been doing but maybe for superstitious reasons), then stop eating mutton, then ducks, then goose, and so on; create you own list. Smile

Or another way is to reduce your consumption of meat in quantity by eating one chicken wing or pork rib less, then two less, then three , then eat just one only, and finally none of it.

It depends on the individual how long one can succeed in giving up meat. But as Budddhists, I think we should try. Many Vajrayana monks have also stop eating meat.

Finally, we shouldn't ridicule one that refuse to eat meat, nor should we condemn one that does. The main reason for not eating animals must to due to compassion for all living things. And compassion must come with wisdom.

coolbluewater SG

It's not only about Karmic effect of eating meat, or Ying Guo Bao Ying, but the motivation of going vegetarian, was because you don't want another animal to end up on your plate as dinner. Remember these animals like chicks; pigs etc have motherly protection and love since young, just like you. What will you feel if you were the mother, seeing your kid being taken away to become the delicacy of another?

Buddha once said, all sentient beings, be it animals, ghosts, are our parents before. They may not be in this life, but they were many lives back. Eating them is equivalent of eating your beloved parents.

You may think it's hard to give up meat, but when you thought of the animals crying for help or struggling to live on, it'll never be too hard to give up the plate of meat in front of you.

Some may say they eat 5 clean meat. A venerable once told me that only meat from animals that died from sickness or accident, or if the meat arrived at your table by mistake, could be classified as 5 clean meat, not meat that comes directly from the abattoirs or slaughterhouses because the supply is directly correlated to the demand.

Ferguson SG

double post

Ferguson SG

but seriously speaking, plants also have life. how can we not eat animals but eat plants

An Eternal Now SG

For a simple reason.. a plant does not have 5 senses, Mind consciousness, and is not able to reborn. Sometimes spirits inhabit trees, known as tree spirits, but that is another matter. Plants by themselves do not have consciousness. They do not suffer pain like animals, and does not have discriminative capacity.

CP25 SG

Hi Moderator (An Eternal Now), Coolbluewater and Cycle,

Thanks alot. You guys truly speak words of wisdom, and have supported vegetarianism with excellent and powerful statements.

Let's all continue to spread the awareness and reality of the animals' suffering to all we know. And hopefully that day will come whereby everyone on this earth turns vegetarian, and all beings live in supreme harmony with one another, in accordance with mother nature. Smile

Eric Cartman SG

You need to watch the HK movie da zhi lao with andy lau in it, or you need to rewatch it.

jay_rocks SG

Rolling Eyes

Fatum SG

what about lower life forms ? ...

a jelly fish say, with no brains, and not much sensing organs to speak of ....

Confused

coolbluewater SG

They do have sense organ.

cycle SG

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarain diet.

~ Albert Einstein