Would you like this?
How would you like to wake up to a day where you have no pain, fear, anxieties, stress and you are left alone to enjoy the air, earth, sunshine, fresh foods, friends and natural environment?
Well not only you but all animals would like this. Take a look below. This monkey will not have such a day. Tsem Rinpoche
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-Professor Charles R. Magel
We are also the guinea pigs:
New scientific research has cast grave doubt on the safety testing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products, food additives and industrial chemicals. Everyday products, from soft drinks and baby foods, to paints, gardening products, cosmetics and shampoos, contain numerous synthetic chemicals as preservatives, dyes, active ingredients, or as contaminants. Official assurances of the safety of these chemicals are based largely on animal experiments that use rabbits, mice, rats and dogs. But new results from a consortium of researchers and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien…ces suggest such assurances may be worthless.
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When we teach our children to inspire dread and fear, substantiated by an unbalanced sense of their importance and power, it is no wonder so many often seek the thrill of terror.
It is not a gigantic leap from ‘unfeeling callousness’ to out of control rage and murder for someone accustomed to tormenting harmless creatures. The question is not only whether this troubled individual should have been involved with vivisection, but whether any young adults should ever be exposed to such a blatant desecration of life. The spiritual poverty of dominion lies in its failure to grasp the nature of compassion and empathy, in such a painfully short supply in the world today.
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Heart-breaking, looking at the poor helpless monkey on the experiment table . Millions of animals suffer and die in every year in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests as well as in medical training exercises and curiosity-driven medical experiments at research laboratories. Animals such mice, rats, frogs, rabbits, hamsters, monkeys, fish, and birds are killed for experimentation. Before their deaths, some are forced to inhale toxic fumes, some have holes drilled into their skulls, and so forth. All I can say its psychologically traumatized for those animals. Animals do not deserve this sort of treatment ,sad watching them in pain and sufferings. Hopefully all these experiments on animals stop, its cruel .
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
For nearly a century, drug and chemical safety assessments have been based on laboratory testing involving rodents, rabbits, dogs, and other animals. Aside from the ethical issues they pose—inflicting both physical pain as well as psychological distress and suffering on large numbers of sentient creatures—animal tests are time- and resource-intensive, restrictive in the number of substances that can be tested, provide little understanding of how chemicals behave in the body, and in many cases do not correctly predict real-world human reactions. Similarly, health scientists are increasingly questioning the relevance of research aimed at “modelling” human diseases in the laboratory by artificially creating symptoms in other animal species.
Trying to mirror human diseases or toxicity by artificially creating symptoms in mice, dogs or monkeys has major scientific limitations that cannot be overcome. Very often the symptoms and responses to potential treatments seen in other species are dissimilar to those of human patients. As a consequence, nine out of every 10 candidate medicines that appear safe and effective in animal studies fail when given to humans. Drug failures and research that never delivers because of irrelevant animal models not only delay medical progress, but also waste resources and risk the health and safety of volunteers in clinical trials.
A large proportion of animal experiments in the EU are reported to cause ‘moderate’ or ‘severe suffering’ to the animals – according to the researchers who carry them out. In the UK in 2018, 31% of animal experiments involved moderate or severe suffering.
Some experiments require the animal to die as part of the test. For example, regulatory tests for botox, vaccines and some tests for chemical safety are essentially variations of the cruel Lethal Dose 50 test in which 50% of the animals die or are killed very close to death.
“The claim that animal experimentation is essential to medical development is not supported by proper, scientific evidence but by opinion and anecdote. Systematic reviews of its effectiveness don’t support the claims made on its behalf” (Pandora Pound et al. British Medical Journal 328, 514-7, 2004).
Thank you Rinpoche for the sharing. I studied biology in school and needed to kill and dissect insects or small animals to study their anatomy.
I don’t know how to describe my feeling now as I am confused and speechless because I was one of them who killed animals without compassion and empathy.
I deeply regret and will not repeat this again.
So next time when you want to buy something always check the lables if whether it was animals tested or not. As I learned in Dharma Class, we shouldnt but animal tested products. Make it stop!
This is very heartbreaking, I mean look at the poor monkey’s face, clearly that it was scared and hopeless. How could humans be so cold blooded? Every being does not deserve this kind of treatment, animals are also lives and they do have feelings, they feel fear and pain as well. Why hurt a living being? What do you get?
Remember that as humans, the ones who claim superiority over other creatures, should we disturb the balance of nature, we will be the first to suffer greatly. When this happens, it does not matter whether we are similar or different from animals.
I love the little logical explanations of why experimentation and exploitation of animals rests upon the illogical assumption that animals and humans are different. However, we all know the truth as they are exactly like us except the ability to express and are more vulnerable due to lacking in mental faculties. The truth is that we all know that but few want to face this fact and continue exploitation without realizing the consequences to your conscience, spirituality and our humanity. If we are truly human beings endowed with the superior intellect, then we would know how to think, protect and cherish other beings besides ourselves. Thus, non harming of animals is really about getting closer to our humanity.
It is just so wrong that we as humans experiment things on animals that we would not even dare to use it on ourselves. Only after the animals use it, then we would use it. What does this show?
It just show that we ourselves are not confident with the negative results that these products will do to us. How can we do things like that to animals if we do not dare to use it as well?! Animals too have feelings just like how all of us have. They too go through the emotions that we go through.
If we changed a situation and it is a human child being on that table instead of a monkey, the world would definitely react in a different manner. It is just sad how people do not see how similar the animals are with us.
The illogical prove that shown in the example above is so powerful! And the logical contradiction only shows that we are wrong. If we are right and this is the universal truth, why there will be logical contradiction? Why we cannot explain with logic about the illogical part of the explanation? Because we covered part of the truth yet we couldn’t just run away with it.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing such a powerful quote!!
To test human medicine and cosmetics and etc on animals for human consumption makes not sense at all. At best it is an approximation. Yet people do it for the sake of profit. Somehow the people who butcher animals are no different from people who test on animals. Testing on animals wathcing the animals suffer how can they tolerate that?
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post.It’s so sad to see all the never ending suffering is happening all around us.I am very agreed one of Rinpoche teaching said that ” We may look different but in our capacity to suffer,we are SAME .We shouldn’t harm animals by any reason!” All lives are precious !! STOP animals cruelty and be vegetarian !!!
So cruelty that do experiment on animals and just want to test whether the product is “SAFE” for human to use. Human so selfishness, let them living in a horrible lab and giving nightmare to them every night, no one want to stay like this condition. Please stop to use animals to be guinea pigs and consumer stop to buy any product which is animal tested. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing.
Aimals really do not deserve this sort of treatment, it is so sad to see the monkey in agonising pain and fear in its eyes. To torment and torture it like that is just simply cruel. The contradictory statement of being the same but not exactly the same is plain denial from the truth that they ARE the same like us. They feel pain, fear, love, etc. yet through our ignorant greed of power we think because we are more intelligent than they are we have the right to treat them like this, that is stupid. With our intelligence we should know better to not kill, to not torture another living being. I really need to be more aware of the products that I buy, I do not know which products conduct animal testing and which do not. Even the fame Body Shop being bought over by Loreal can no longer claim to be vegetarian friendly. With products we buy such as beauty products, we should spend more time on working on our inner beauty than the beauty we buy supporting animal testing to smother on our face.
Because our selfish we use animal to be guinea pigs. Then do you believe alien? May be very soon human will be the ginea pigs!
The world is round. What ever we do, it will come back!
Be kind to people and animal.
I believe in animal rights, and i think they are some things that should be taken more seriously. Animals do not deserve for this to happen to them. They deserve to wake up to a life with no pain, suffering and torture. They should be treated with love. I hope that the word spreads fast. Thank you for sharing this Rinpoche. I am happy that Rinpoche decided to share this. Its good that more and more people know.
Inhumane! But because the animals can’t speak and they are subject to being experiments. But i am sure there is other way instead of using them experiments… Om Mani Pedme Hum. May these animals break away from their realm and reborn as human.
People still often ask if animals should have rights; quite simply the answer is “YES”. Animals should deserve to live their lives free from exploitation, pains and sufferings! All animals do have the feelings to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do if not worst. Supporters of animals’ rights believe that every creature with a will to live has a right to live free from pain and suffering. Only our prejudice denies them of that right we expect to have for ourselves; and such prejudice is totallly and morally unacceptable. Irrespective of its species, dogs, cats, pigs and monkeys have the same capacity to feel pain, but based on species that sometimes allow us to think of one animal as a loving companion and the other as a ‘dinner’.
感恩仁波切的分享与开示
很多时候，我们是矛盾的，而矛盾的情况更常发生在我们想得到一些东西的时候
比如我们很多时候想品尝美食时，会把动物的痛苦与对他们的残忍杀害的过程完全没有感觉，当我们吃饱了，就会觉得它们会痛苦，很残忍，然后就急着去念经，放生
在佛法里我们修学的是菩提心和慈悲心，要扶助弱小，要利益众生。但我们的心识总是在两极之中，产生矛盾。所以修学佛法就是要我们转化心识，发起菩提心和慈悲心来利益更多众生。
祈愿我们常在仁波切的教诲里，警惕自己，有时候我们阻止不了他们，但至少我们要从自己先开始，并与更多人分享师父的开示
倘若大家都接触了师父的教诲，那么世界不就充满了法喜了吗 🙂
感恩仁波切，祈愿师父常驻在世，常转法轮
Saw the picture, the little poor monkey is like us full of frightent and helpless, no one like this feeling, how we can do this on animals just fulfill human ‘ s research. Stop to use animals on all research.
All so called scientific researches are for name and money regardless of experiments done on animals or humans. That is why we hear of so many types of diseases afflicting modern day people and animals compared to 30 years ago.
We humans allowed it because we wanted the name and prestige, and money. We, I included, allowed it because we say we are too busy with our life, job, career, business, pursuits and we think to ourselves that life is short so might as well make full use of it rather than fight against these big scientific corporations.
Hence humans and animals suffer, Earth suffers.
Animals should be treated with same respect, love and care. Animals are like us because we have the same reaction and feeling towards pain. We don’t understand their language or sign doesn’t mean that animals do not understand us. They have more kindness and care towards others compare to us, human. Shame on ignorant human.
The poor monkey is one of millions of animals who are abused daily and subject to the whims and fancies of their human captors. Here he is being used in an experiment that may not even bring any benefit to people. In the meantime so much pain and suffering is being inflicted.
The same callousness towards these animals is also directed towards humans. So much preservatives, chemicals and additives are being used in our foodstuff, with never a thought about the safety and welfare of consumers.
Callousness is being ‘bred’ in young minds and no one seems to be bothered about its terrible impact, short and long term, on them and others. The world is so sadly deficient in such precious ‘commodities’ as care and compassion.People pay so little attention to them and they are so badly needed.
Thank you Rinpoche for pointing out the animals cruelty through the experiment and all kind of tests the animals have to endure. All the animals have the same emotions and feelings like us, but they cannot speak our human languages to express themselves. All the world peace activities should include animal rights as well, not only just saving human beings but other sentient beings like animals.
Many people still do not care much about animals’ feelings or even their lives. To many people, they are just animals. They are nothing but animals.. We should stop doing such cruel and inhuman act to the animals. They have feelings too, just like you and me!
Definitely won’t like this… This is so cruel and inhuman. It was so sad when seeing this picture of cute monkey, that treat monkey like this.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post.
Animals deserve a chance to live and not abused by humans. How would we feel if we are tight up and ended up on the chopping board. Our fears we experience will also be like this monkey… frightened and helpless.
Be kind to animals and never harm another being. Thank you, Rinpoche, for sharing and creating the awareness of animal abuse.
Thanks Rinpoche for sharing,
Animal Rights and Human Wrongs
“Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is ‘Because the animals are like us.’ Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are not like us.’ Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.”
-Professor Charles R. Magel
The answers from the experimenters are so un-logical…
May be learn more Dharma and get to know more details on Cause and Effect hence to lesser down our ignorance towards all sentient beings…
Experimentation on animals is certainly one of the most cruel thing people has done… I am from the pharmaceutical line and back when I was studying, experimenting on animals is really ‘unavoidable’.
Fortunately, the course that I was taking is under an Australian university, and they have set very strict laws surrounding the usage of animals in laboratories… so we managed to go through our laboratory sessions with more simulations rather than using an actual animal. However, I think this is not the case for many other universities out there.
The pharmaceutical and cosmetic line is one of the worst when it comes to animal testing. Both use a very different way of testing as the application method is entirely different. Cosmetic animal testing is less complicated but no less cruel… The bath lotion, shampoo, facial cream, toner, etc that we’re using today have most probably been tested on an animal. The classic way of testing any soap/shampoo is applying the product on an animal and leaving it on the animal unwashed for several weeks… due to the chemicals, the skin is often corroded and from there they will adjust the component and formulation of the product. Cruel indeed…
In the pharmaceutical line, is even more extensive… just one drug, it probably would have taken millions of lives due to animal testing. The worst part about testing a drug is that one actually induce the disease on the animal in order to test the efficacy of the drug. So, take for example, if you are testing a cream to treat burns, then you would have to intentionally burn a certain part of the body on the animal, and then apply the medication to observe the healing process… of course this is just a brief explanation but I think you guys get the picture.
Thankfully some countries have already place ban on animal testing, though it is more concentrated on cosmetic products. So, I always make sure I support brands that are against animal cruelty… I think this is one of the best way to encourage companies to opt for a more compassionate way in developing their products.
Dear Rinpoche, every living being would love to wake up to a day that was described by Rinpoche on the above. But this, I just can’t really describe it in words. IF we have the power to shut down all this kind of activities then we all can have a very healthy and happy life. But we don’t and that’s our main problem.
This is so unnecessary! Since the products are to be used by humans, then why don’t just get them to do the experiments? Oh, because the laws say we can’t! So what about the animals? Why don’t people be more concerned about them? Just because they don’t speak human language, right! So what do you think the animals are doing in this world? They are here to grow old and then die NATURALLY eventually, we have no rights to lock them up and send them to labs for experiments! They are just like us, they have feelings too! Please wake up people, it’s thousands and thousands of lives we are saying, not ten or twenty; they are lives, not toys.
Thank you for sharing this blog post. Vivisection, the act of animal testing is very bad. Animal testing does not prove anything when it comes to the humans. Animals can be safe consuming certain chemicals whereas humans can’t consume the same.
Dear Rinpoche,
Just looking at the picture of the monkey with it’s hands and feet tied to the table and the face makes me want to cry because all animals in the world do not have to deserve such treatment at all.
Animals should have all the rights to freedom and a happy, big and open place for animals to roam freely and happily.
Of course I would like to wake up feeling great, healthy, fearless without pain and stress but if i had the choice to have the above mentioned I would rather give it to all the animals as they deserve to have more freedom to roam, eat, play and roam freely than we do because we don’t have to worry of having jabs being poked in to our skin, getting butchered for humans and so on.
That’s why I think that animals deserve to have their pain and sufferings lifted of their shoulders.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing.
Love
Jutika
animals deserve rights and i try my best to tell people and spread awareness that this happens and some people just don’t care, it is so sad how humans can be so stupid to say “they are like us so come on lets experiment on them”. it is so horrid
在地球里，人类称为万物之灵，所以往往为了人类自己的利益而牺牲其他众生的性命也觉得理所当然和没有悔意。在佛法世界里我们强调的是要有菩提心和慈悲心，要扶助弱小，要利益众生。但我们的心识总是在两极之中，产生矛盾。所以修学佛法就是要我们转化娑婆心识，发起菩提心和慈悲心来普渡和利益众生。让地球成为佛净土。
感恩仁波切的分享，祈愿仁波切长驻在世常转法轮
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this blog post. Such a inhuman act if come to think about it if we ourselves being the victims furthermore the monkey cannot talk he only know how to shout how can we do this such selfish act.
The very anxious look on the monkey’s face is enough for anyone to decide there and then to not start what they are about to start.
I remember a story I was told of someone, a slaughterer of cows working in a slaughter house that one day resigned and stopped eating meat simply because of the the stare he got from a cow that he was about to slaughter.
One look, one eye contact, one mind contact. That is all that was needed for the person to relate no more to another “animal” that had nothing better to do with his life but be killed and eaten, but to relate to another being that has a body, that feels pain, that feels anguish but also feels compassion… a living being, a sentient being.
I see that eye contact in the picture, how could the people IN the picture miss that?
I feel sorry for them.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this.
I wish it will help us, as a human civilization, to stop engaging in actions that are making us anachronistic and pointless.