While we seem to be concentrating a lot on helping stray animals, I started AnimalCare with a three-pronged mission and our third mission is to cultivate kindness/compassion to animals through education.
Being kind to animals includes not eating them, and not creating a demand for meat. Adopting a moderate stand on this, I’ve always encouraged people to reduce their meat consumption because I know a total abstention may be difficult and off-putting. Adopting a gradual change may be wiser and more doable.
I will always remember what happened during one of my public talks many years ago. I was talking about kindness to animals to a group of students. At the beginning of the talk, I asked for a show of hands, which of them are animal-lovers. At the end of the talk, one boy came up to me and said, “When you asked us just now who are animal-lovers, I dare not put up my hand. Actually I love cats and dogs, but I still eat other animals, so how can I claim to be an animal-lover?”
He was right.
While the benefits of reducing (or abstaining from) meat-eating are many, we actually only need one reason – compassion for the animals.
If you’re interested in learning about the ill effects of the animal farming industry on the environment, please read this: http://www.vegsense.net/uploads/5/2/5/0/5250909/emc2.pdf
Einstein’s views on vegetarianism: http://www.ivu.org/history/northam20a/einstein.html
Eating Meat = Catastrophe Squared!
The above links are reproduced courtesy of the Vegetarian Society of Singapore.
http://www.vegetarian-society.org/ (You may be interested to read their newsletters)
