Desensitized?
Dear Martin,
Thank you for posting this on your facebook. Your write up is very good. I extracted it and posted here to bring more awareness to what is happening and hope more will sign the petition. I thank you for your compassion and words of wisdom. It is good we have some sense of care and responsibility toward animals. They do not exist so we can kill, hunt, eat and exploit them. They can feel pain and we should not inflict it on them.
Tsem Rinpoche
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In recent years, humankind have become more aware of the harm we do to ourselves, our fellow sentient beings and the environment when we allow ourselves to indulge in the flesh of fellow sentient beings and I guess more people have turned to vegetarianism. And how does the industry respond? By glorifying the slaughter of these innocent and harmless beings and going to the point of convincing the public that animals WANT to and look forward to being the subject of torture.
This is wrong and reeks of deception and does not only desensitise the inflicting of pain on others but also excuses it.
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Your Next Meal!
Yummy? Tasty? Behind the scenes of the meat on your plates. Meat is a killing industry.
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This is Daw
This is what they do to get meat on tables, and to produce belts and jackets. Think twice before your next purchase.
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Don’t Take My Mummy Away!
Look at the poor baby chasing after the mother. Why do we do that to them? It’s time to seriously think about our choices in life and how they affect others. Be kind. Don’t break up families.
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They do this every day!
This is how they are being treated every day of their lives. Please do something to stop the brutality. Listen to their cries for help!
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What happened at Fair Oaks Farm?
The largest undercover dairy investigation of all time. See what they found out at Fair Oaks Farm.
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Not only does eating meat harm the once alive animal it also harms the person who eats the meat. You may be asking, how does eating meat harm you? The answer is pretty simple, since that animal was once living it means that it was also a home for bacteria. In fact Ebola actually spreads and breeds from the meat that you buy, that’s part of the reason why Ebola killed many in such a short period of time(since a lot of us must eat meat)
WE should all join the battle against meat. Why? for every single piece of meat 1 animal has to die and if you multiply that by how many people eat meat, you can clearly see how many animals die for our sake.
Uncle Martin’s write up above really makes a lot of sense.
Meat eaters have their rights to eat meat and we should not think less of them just because of this.
Most of us including myself were brought up eating meat and the more we eat, the more we become used to eating meat and the harder it is for us to give up eating meat.
The Earthlings video is a very eye opening video and it has helped me realize the pain and suffering the animals which were slaughtered had to go through so much pain right up to their last breath.
This has in turn encouraged me to cut down on my meat consumption by eating meat free meals when I can.
Thank you Uncle Martin for sharing your views!
What uncle Martin has written here is very beautiful and logical, he explained very well and made it easier for most of us to understand.
There’s nothing wrong about eating meat, but because of our ‘needs’ towards eating meat, we have caused other living beings to suffer, be it directly or indirectly, it doesn’t matter because the pain is still there. The choice is definitely in our hands, I’m a vegetarian and I don’t like to force people to become a vegetarian.
I became a vegetarian after the documentary, Earthlings was introduced to me and I remember watching it along with a few more other kids, most of us have become vegetarians after watching the video. I’ve got to admit that it was tough at first because I’ve been eating meat my whole life so definitely I found it hard back then to cut off the meat immediately.
It took me more than a year to get used to vegetarian diet and also to be disciplined to myself. It’s all about disciplining ourselves and controlling our minds, now even when I see meat, I don’t have cravings for it anymore. I’m not a saint, definitely, but I’ve realised that animals have feelings too and the lives do matter! Animals are the same as human beings except that they don’t speak human language, so can you imagine how painful it’d be if it was you whose throat is being slit apart while you’re still in conscious? I can’t even bear the thought of it.
Animals feel every single one bit of the pain and suffering we feel and we should not ignore that fact. Just because we as human beings are on top of the foodchain, that does not mean that any other animal below us are insignificant and they should die to fullfill our desire.
The children book about a pig that wanted to become a bacon when he grows up makes no sense at all. Who would think that ” oh, when I grow up I want to be killed and eaten as bacon”. The children books should be educative and not teaching children twisted concepts like this. By producing children books similar to the one mentioned above, we are teaching children that all animals are insignificant and they are happily and readily to die for you. This would seriously affect the mindset of the future generation.
All lives matter and we should cherish life.
Chris
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things..
Since I was young, I do not like to take any pork or bacon because of its smell.
2~3 years back when I started to attend dharma classes and be a volunteer of Kechara regularly, Rinpoche’s teaching has let me know that all the sentient beings are existed. And one of the beings is the animals which is not meant for us to kill, hunt, eat, to hurt and etc. They are like human beings, can feel pain and we should not inflict it on them.
Following Rinpoche’s teaching so far, it brings me to decide not to take any meat more and become a lifetime vegetarian recently.
Thank you Rinpoche, because your compassion and effort to remind us always not to hurt the animals.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing the Martin’s post here.
Dear Rinpoche,
This post was a little disturbing, seeing that a couple actually wrote a children’s book about a pig who wants to become bacon when he grows up. That would be the equivalent to us wanting to die and become food when we grew up. It makes no sense.
Though I’m sure the writers had no malicious intent when writing their book, the fact that they wrote this book shows that they may be a little ignorant on how the pigs, in actuality, really do not want to die when they grow up.
Nonetheless, I am hopeful, for there are other people out there in the world doing their best to point out the enormous flaw of accuracy in the book. However, I’m sure the writers are good people. I hope that they realize how inaccurate and ignorant their book is.
Your humble student,
Keng Hwa.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing Martin’s post.
What Martin has written is very true. When we eat meat without knowing the domino effects of what it does to animals, we do so ignorantly. But what is terrible is that when we know what our acts are doing, yet we still continue. Just take ourselves in their position, when people hit, abuse and even kill us for our meat. How will we feel? We will feel fear, anger, hatred, etc. All these different emotions will flow through our bodies.
What makes us so different from the animals that we kill for their meat? Nothing. We are all living beings that are living on this planet we call Mother Earth. Everyone and every being on Earth is equal and should not be suffering.
It is just really funny how people classify certain animals to be alright to be eaten, yet some animals we should not eat them. If animals should be consumed to satisfy our taste buds, then all animals and even human beings are equal and can be eaten. Yet, there is the labels there. Why so?
What truly is upsetting is that man kind abuse the “powers” that we have, taking the fact that we may be more “superior” compared to animals and abuse these poor animals in different ways. Some people know what is going on and they just choose to turn a blind eye. It is just not right for us to be doing things like that.
When we see something that is not correct, we should be trying to fix it and not make it worst. However, what many people are doing now is that they just turn a blind eye and not do anything. Wishing that someone else will do something to help. Forgetting the fact that if everyone chose to do what they did, there will be no change in the world at all.
Through Rinpoche”s wise counselling and teachings, it has now become our “Oath” taken to abstain from eating of meat of all animals, where they can fill pain and sufferings in the same way like humans do too! Many of us have turned over to vegetarianism as a result, thanks to our compassionate advice and nature of our Guru. Om Many Padmi Hum.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this blog post with us , I fully agree with what Mr Martin has said if we do not even have this basic kindness about others sentient being how can we train our mind to be true compassion like a enlighten being so I must be thankful to Rinpoche for teaching us and show us the way to liberate ourselves as well as others.
This piece of writing done by Martin is so beautiful. I love it.
Animals all around the world are subjected to this kind of suffering, they are forced into slaughter houses where they are killed in the worst ways. And the worst thing about this, is that nobody seems to realise the pain they are causing to these animals. A lot of people who buy meat from the grocers, or even from food places to eat, have no idea what kind of pain and suffering is before them. As they eat the meat on their plates, they are blinded by their own selfishness and they do not realise the evil they are doing. The meat industries blind the public, and hide the truth away from everyone. We are thankful that there are actually documented videos like Earthlings for people to see. Its the truth that turns people towards vegetarianism.
To end my comment, i would just like to emphasis the importance of videos like earthlings. Forms of media like this are the greatest and most effective way to fight the suffering of animals. They expose people to what really happens behind the wall of slaughterhouses and they allow people to think for themselves whether what they eat is right.
Thank you Martin for writing something so great and thank you Rinpoche for sharing it.
I doubt very much the piglet says he’d wanna be bacon when he grows up.
So to what end would we go on deceiving ourselves and our children that killing an animal is totally cool and exactly what the animal wish for? This is definitely a huge wrong view, a huge lie, a selfish and a cruel one that we’ve been approving and selling even to our kids. Humans can sometimes be the smartest and also the most deluded psychotic beings on earth. Petition signed.
Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you for posting this on Rinpoche’s blog. Teaching us to see the inhumanity in our ordinary actions, even in something as seemingly benign as eating our daily meals, and then showing us an easy and meritorious alternative, has been one of Rinpoche’s greatest gift of love to all Rinpoche’s students.
We learn in Dharma that liberation from our own suffering is possible only by the firm grasping of the two branches of attainments – Compassion and Wisdom. Wisdom in turn is only possible if we have achieved true Compassion. But how is anyone to attain Compassion and for Wisdom to arise out of it, if we cannot even manage the most basic sense of empathy for our fellow sentient beings?
Therefore, Rinpoche’s wise counsel for us to abstain from harming other beings to satisfy our culinary pleasures, is in fact for our own good. Learning to see all animals differently; learning to see them as precious lives no different to mine has connected me with something good within myself. That too is a great gift from Rinpoche. It is something which I think all human beings deserve to feel for themselves.
Thank you,
Martin