Slaughtering House in Europe
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I have tried going vege for a few months b4 i gave in to desire. The 1st week was pretty hard, but after that you will find meat gross and avoid it. My wish from young has always been that one day, no more animals will be eaten but sadly this wish may never come true
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maybe this can help:
ONE HUNDRED & ONE REASONS TO GO VEGETARIANhttp://www.flex.com/~jai/articles/101.html
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PEOPLE
Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation
20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater
Every 3 seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world
If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% it would free 12,000,000 tons of grain - enough to feed 60,000,000 people (the population of Great Britain)
If all Americans became vegetarian, it would free enough grain to feed 600,000,000 people (the population of India)
Intensification in animal farming has displaced 1,000,000's of people from their traditional lands - eg. indigenous people in south & central america, native americans in north america & crofters in Great Britain - this is continuing today
People displaced from their lands into cities succumb to dietary deficiency, diseases, parasites & opportunistic diseases
In third world countries 1 in 10 babies die before their first birthday
The UK imports £46,000,000 worth of grain from third world countries to feed our livestock
Due to overgrazing 850,000,000 people live on land threatened by desertification & over 230,000,000 already live on land so severely desertified that they are unable to sustain their existence & face imminent starvation
1,000,000,000 people in the west gorging on meat & dairy leave 1,000,000,000 to waste away & 3,500,000,000 teeter on the brink
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ANIMALS
Fishing with drift (and other modern) nets weakens & destroys ecosystems by indiscriminately killing billions of sea creatures & disrupting the sea bed
Fishermen's nets kill 10 times as many other animals as the fish they are hoping to catch
Fish caught in nets die an agonising slow death of suffocation
Each year 15,000,000,000 land animals are slaughtered for food & an unknown but much larger number of sea creatures (including 1000's of dolphins caught accidentally)
Chickens are crammed into battery cages with upto 3 other birds, they are unable to even spread their wings & many can not even stand up
Unwanted male chicks (because they can't lay eggs) are gassed or pulped while their sisters go to the battery sheds
Chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic to prevent them injuring each other in the unnaturally confined conditions they are kept in - this is equivalent to having your fingernails pulled out without anaesthetic
Modern farming methods using growth hormones & artificial lighting mean that many chickens out grow their bones, resulting in fractured & broken legs
Sows are kept tethered in stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on concrete or slatted floors - they can not even turn around
Poultry raised for meat are kept in windowless broiler sheds, with around 20-30,000 in each shed, they live in an area of 10-20 cm square - fighting due to overcrowding is common & like battery hens they commonly suffer from supperating bed sores
Broilersheds are artificially lit 23 hours a day to produce rapid growth
Animals travel between farms & to slaughter in overcrowded transporters with no food or water - resulting in stress, injuries & deaths - legal requirements are widely ignored
95% of poultry suffer injuries before being killed & 30% suffer broken bones
Problems with stunning practices mean that many animals have their throats slit while still conscious (around 6% of cattle or 200,000 per year) & are then dipped in tanks of scalding water (to loosen feathers, bristles etc.) again while fully conscious
4000 animals die spurting their blood out every minute in a British slaughterhouse
Calf leather comes from animals killed at just 2 weeks old
Cows were fed on the ground up remains of other cows & sheep - the result is thought to be BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA cattle are fed partly on recycled plastic pellets
Cows only give milk for 10 months after they have a calf - so they are routinely artificially inseminated (ie. mechanically raped) to keep them pregnant & milking - their calves are taken away (usually at 12 hours old) for meat or export to veal crates
Cows would naturally live upto 20 years but are slaughtered after 5-7 years when their milk production begins to fall
In the UK animals are killed by first being stunned with electricity or a captive bolt gun (ie. a bolt is fired into their heads) before having their throats slit & being plunged into boiling water - all this happens on a production line with the animals being hung upside down from a moving conveyor belt - this is factory farming
"Animals are those unfortunate slaves & victims of the most brutal part of mankind" - John Stewart Mill (philosopher)
Veal calves are confined in stalls in the dark, unable to move & are fed on pigs blood , chocolate & dried milk (we are drinking the rich fresh milk of their mothers)
Cows naturally produce 5 litres of milk per day for their calves - under the intensified systems of modern farming they produce 25-40 litres per day - resulting in swollen & inflamed udders - at this rate they are soon worn out
Large areas of land are under monoculture to grow crops to feed to animals - these areas are wildlife deserts supporting fewer & fewer species.
HEALTH
Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don't get sick as often)
Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten
Fish contain heavy metals & other pollutants -many of which originated on farms
The world health organisation recommends a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, salt & with plenty of fibre - exactly what you get on a vegan/vegetarian diet
Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies
Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)
Obesity is rare in vegetarians, obesity is related to many diseases
Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels - high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure
Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes
Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E
Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones
80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh - most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs
Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine - the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones
50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema
Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians - some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating
Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat
Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians
The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men
Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter
Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)
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Will Eat One More Week Of Meat Then Go Back To Vege 
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Originally posted by sinweiy:maybe this can help:
ONE HUNDRED & ONE REASONS TO GO VEGETARIANhttp://www.flex.com/~jai/articles/101.html
extract some para:
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ANIMALS
Fishing with drift (and other modern) nets weakens & destroys ecosystems by indiscriminately killing billions of sea creatures & disrupting the sea bed
Fishermen's nets kill 10 times as many other animals as the fish they are hoping to catch
Fish caught in nets die an agonising slow death of suffocation
Each year 15,000,000,000 land animals are slaughtered for food & an unknown but much larger number of sea creatures (including 1000's of dolphins caught accidentally)
Chickens are crammed into battery cages with upto 3 other birds, they are unable to even spread their wings & many can not even stand up
Unwanted male chicks (because they can't lay eggs) are gassed or pulped while their sisters go to the battery sheds
Chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic to prevent them injuring each other in the unnaturally confined conditions they are kept in - this is equivalent to having your fingernails pulled out without anaesthetic
Modern farming methods using growth hormones & artificial lighting mean that many chickens out grow their bones, resulting in fractured & broken legs
Sows are kept tethered in stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on concrete or slatted floors - they can not even turn around
Poultry raised for meat are kept in windowless broiler sheds, with around 20-30,000 in each shed, they live in an area of 10-20 cm square - fighting due to overcrowding is common & like battery hens they commonly suffer from supperating bed sores
Broilersheds are artificially lit 23 hours a day to produce rapid growth
Animals travel between farms & to slaughter in overcrowded transporters with no food or water - resulting in stress, injuries & deaths - legal requirements are widely ignored
95% of poultry suffer injuries before being killed & 30% suffer broken bones
Problems with stunning practices mean that many animals have their throats slit while still conscious (around 6% of cattle or 200,000 per year) & are then dipped in tanks of scalding water (to loosen feathers, bristles etc.) again while fully conscious
4000 animals die spurting their blood out every minute in a British slaughterhouse
Calf leather comes from animals killed at just 2 weeks old
Cows were fed on the ground up remains of other cows & sheep - the result is thought to be BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA cattle are fed partly on recycled plastic pellets
Cows only give milk for 10 months after they have a calf - so they are routinely artificially inseminated (ie. mechanically raped) to keep them pregnant & milking - their calves are taken away (usually at 12 hours old) for meat or export to veal crates
Cows would naturally live upto 20 years but are slaughtered after 5-7 years when their milk production begins to fall
In the UK animals are killed by first being stunned with electricity or a captive bolt gun (ie. a bolt is fired into their heads) before having their throats slit & being plunged into boiling water - all this happens on a production line with the animals being hung upside down from a moving conveyor belt - this is factory farming
"Animals are those unfortunate slaves & victims of the most brutal part of mankind" - John Stewart Mill (philosopher)
Veal calves are confined in stalls in the dark, unable to move & are fed on pigs blood , chocolate & dried milk (we are drinking the rich fresh milk of their mothers)
Cows naturally produce 5 litres of milk per day for their calves - under the intensified systems of modern farming they produce 25-40 litres per day - resulting in swollen & inflamed udders - at this rate they are soon worn out
Large areas of land are under monoculture to grow crops to feed to animals - these areas are wildlife deserts supporting fewer & fewer species.
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i am compassionate too. but i just dont see the link.Originally posted by HENG@:why not? if we dun put pressure on KFC corp as a whole, how do we make them change the way their us slaughterfarms operate? u eat at KFC, u condone their actions even if the us slaughterhouses dun supply sg. in the end u're telling them its ok to continue being cruel. seeing as an eater is not enough. u should be seeing it from a compassionate, intelligent, thinking eater's POV -
then come back to meat again after 3 days?Originally posted by snobbish: Will Eat One More Week Of Meat Then Go Back To Vege 
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For me, I believe it is possible to turn vegetarian overnight. It is all a person's attitude towards vegetarianism. Why I say can turn vegetarian overnight? Because I used to go for a dharma tour overseas and for two weeks we ate vegetarian meals. It is delicious, so we had no problems with it.Originally posted by coolbluewater:Turning into vegetarian need not be an overnight effort. One could start to increase the consumption of carbohydrates and fibres, so that stomach will get full easily, and hence lesser desire for meat products. As a vegatarian, I can vouch for the benefits of becoming one, became healthier is one. Of course, I'm not saying a vegetarian will not fall ill, but without animal fats, one does becomes "lighter".
So vegetarianism is actually quite easy, just that my will is not strong enough. If you cook, you also need to know how to cook well, so that you have enough nutrients and also the food must be delicious so that you will like it. The vegetarian diet is actually suitable to most people. As long as you know what you need to eat. -
That is right, according to Buddhism we indeed have herbivorous ancestors. That is even prior to stone age people surviving on hunting...Originally posted by sinweiy:interesting found, our human anatomy is alike herbivores than omnivores or carnivores.
kind of verify what Buddha's said that human did 'evolve' from heavenly beings (which dislike the smell of meat said Ven Hui Lui).
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Nope, will preserve!Originally posted by dragg:then come back to meat again after 3 days? 
This week eat as much xiao long bao and salmon steak as can -
i can never live a life without meat.
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Originally posted by snobbish:Nope, will preserve! This week eat as much xiao long bao and salmon steak as can
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I believe everyone can, as long as they know how to cook/where to get GOOD vegetarian food.Originally posted by dragg:i can never live a life without meat. That is also my master's advise. -
frankly i cant even last a single day without chicken.Originally posted by An Eternal Now:I believe everyone can, as long as they know how to cook/where to get GOOD vegetarian food. That is also my master's advise. -
Anyone watch Discovery Channel?
Apparently, a monastery on a mountain in Tibet makes tofu and preserve them burying them underground.
Its like our smelly tofu, and they eat it for their meal, mainly because its also high in carbo. -
If bird flu becomes a pandemic... then its time for you to turn vegetarianOriginally posted by dragg:frankly i cant even last a single day without chicken.
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Yes watch b4. A vegetarian must eat lots of bean type food like Tofu because it contains the necessary protein to subtitute the proteins we get from meat diet.Originally posted by laurence82:Anyone watch Discovery Channel?
Apparently, a monastery on a mountain in Tibet makes tofu and preserve them burying them underground.
Its like our smelly tofu, and they eat it for their meal, mainly because its also high in carbo. -
try vege chicken rice b4Originally posted by dragg:frankly i cant even last a single day without chicken.
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no.Originally posted by neutral_onliner:try vege chicken rice b4
but i am not the type who can wangmeizhike. -
From time to time we can eat those fake meat.Originally posted by neutral_onliner:try vege chicken rice b4
But honestly these fake meat are bad for health - and in fact some people who become vegetarian die even younger than non vegetarian precisely because they eat 'fake meat' and alike. But if you have the right vegetarian diet it will be beneficial to your health and you can live till old age. There are many vegetarian Buddhist monks in history who lived till a very old age with great health. Some even lived till 120 years old like modern Zen Master Hsu Yun.
If we are long time vegetarians we must avoid to eat this kind of things. Anyway to me they arent really delicious either. The real vegetarian stuff are much better. -
Here is one that is good, and quite easy to cook too.
enjoy
Braised Assorted Vegetables (Luo Han Zhai) by Jacklyn Chen
Ingredients:
1/2 turnip
1 carrot
1 bunch broccoli
soup stock
salt
3 bamboo shoots
2 dried mushrooms (soaked)
5 champignons
20 gingko nuts
4 tablespoons oil
1/2 cup (100cc) soup stock
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon cooking wine
dash of monosodium glutamate
1 teaspoon cornstarch
Method:
1. Cut turnip and carrot into 2.5cm (1″ pieces and scoop into balls with baller. Boil in soup till tender. Drain.
2. Boil broccoli in soup with salt added till tender.
3. Drain and cut broccoli into pieces. Slice mushrooms and bamboo shoots. Shell gingko nuts and boil in salted water.
4. Heat oil. Add and sauté in this order: mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and champignons. Add soup, turnip, carrot and seasonings.
5. Sauté and mix well. Thicken with starch mixed with water.
6. Add broccoli. Server while hot.
Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Nutritional information:
Yield: 4 servings
Each serving provides:
Calories: 197
Protein: 7.3g -
eating less fried chicken is also gd for yr healthOriginally posted by dragg:i am compassionate too. but i just dont see the link. -
Similar clips were shown to my colleagues during lunch time sometime before, and they ended up staying away from meat for a week or 2, before they realised that they coudn't resist the temptation of meat.
I've showed them the clips today over at lunctime. Their reactions were all similar, purely horrific.... . Wonder how long will they keep their hands off those chicken and beef now.. -
i will continue even after watching the clips.Originally posted by coolbluewater:Similar clips were shown to my colleagues during lunch time sometime before, and they ended up staying away from meat for a week or 2, before they realised that they coudn't resist the temptation of meat.
I've showed them the clips today over at lunctime. Their reactions were all similar, purely horrific.... . Wonder how long will they keep their hands off those chicken and beef now..
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Though it's not something new, it still serves a good reminder to people, especially meat eaters, that the sentient beings are suffering because of our greed and desires.Originally posted by dragg:i will continue even after watching the clips.
it is not something new. -
unfortunately most people dont see it that way.Originally posted by coolbluewater:Though it's not something new, it still serves a good reminder to people, especially meat eaters, that the sentient beings are suffering because of our greed and desires.
humans are born omnivores.