I remember when I first started the basic Buddhism course, one of the student ask the teacher, must all Buddhist became vegetarian?
The teacher replied by answering, it’s not necessary and it depends on you. He told us that actually meat is smelly.
Meat is Smelly? At that certain point, I can’t really understand but if now, it made some sense to me. Human beings are real cruel, in a sense that they marinate the meat with flavorings to hide the smell in order to gain profit.
The cause? This lead to more and more animals being reared in poor condition and treated badly. Accidentally, I found this website www.meat.org. It shows how the meat industry ill-treats these poor animals. How they kick and slam the animals and they treat them as if they are bastard or they had done them wrong.
They rear the animals in poor conditions especially chickens and pigs. This is how I feel, if human beings want to eat animals, it’s an act of cruelty already, but if they keep them in such poor condition and ill-treat them, I don’t know how to say also.
Last time, I thought taking egg is okay but after I watch the video, maybe I would not consider buying egg from the supermarket anymore. I feel that especially in Singapore, we should stop eating meat or at least not so frequently, cuz all our food are imported from overseas and we are not sure where the source came from or how the animals are being treated and reared.
How I wish I had a piece of land. Then I can rear 10 hens and wait for them to give me eggs. One more thing, we don’t know what the supplier feed their animals with, so our health is in danger. So, why risk our health over unhealthy diet?
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