Face the Truth and watch these short videos! | 请你面对现实，观看这些影片！
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Food is one of the most talked about subjects amongst people all over the world. We talk about our diet, food preference, what type of food is nice, where to get good food, how to cook food we like to eat, and so on. Some of us share our food recipes with friends, some offer to cook for others to sample and taste. Others make plans to travel long distances to try some food they heard of or read about. A new word – “foodie”, was coined over 30 years ago to describe people who love food. It is now so easy to Google for the supposedly best food in town and each country has its own unique type of food. Malaysia is considered a country that has good food due to its multiracial population. Each ethnicity has their own cuisine and in Malaysia these have even merged to create unique fusion dishes. Everyone has their own food preference. Many people love cheese, many also love durian and many do not. Hence the food industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. As the saying goes, everyone has to eat.
Carnivores have to hunt daily to live. They have no choice but to kill for their food or die from starvation. Photo credit: https://www.conservationinstitute.org/cheetah-facts/
Humans being omnivorous have a far greater choice of food compared to carnivores and herbivores. Carnivores have to hunt daily to live. They have no choice but to kill for their food or die from starvation. In the animal world, they kill to live. Humans though, live to eat, and make food a pleasure: preparing, making and serving food becomes an art. Most of these foods are meat based, derived from animals butchered for human consumption.
Food companies hire marketing professionals to sell ideas to consumers to buy their beautifully packaged end products. But they do not inform the consumers how the food was produced. Meat harvested from slaughtered animals are processed and dressed with herbs, colourings and additives to make the food aromatic, nice to see and tasty. They spend a lot of money on advertisements. Chefs are employed by food companies to come out with recipes to make cooking at home easy for consumers. So much work, time and effort are put into all these for just a few seconds of pleasure – chewing and swallowing the food. Yet we go back for more because we get so attached to the sensory pleasure albeit even for a few meagre seconds. The memory that lingers on from the pleasures that we continuously seek is so strong that we ignore the plight and suffering of those animals reared in closed captivity. These animals are kept in tight and dirty enclosures, with sores and diseases; they spend their whole lives producing eggs, milk and offspring. They are continuously fed with growth hormones so they can be harvested in the shortest time possible. It is no surprise that diseases spread easily in closed quarters and unhealthy environments, hence livestock farmers give huge amounts of antibiotics to the animals. These antibiotics end up in us when we consume the meat but we do not see all of this. Yet, we enjoy such meat and we call it fresh meat. Countless animals are brutally butchered for their pelt, skin and meat, just to provide for human desire to wear leather products, to use animal by products and to consume them as food. When the time comes, these animals are killed, no sedatives are used. There is no such thing as mercy killing, in my opinion.
One of the examples of animal cruelty – countless animals are brutally butchered their for skin for human desire to wear leather products. Photo credit: https://thegreenvegans.com
In some parts of the world, meat derived from wild exotic animals are considered a delicacy, these include the likes snakes, crocodiles, big cats, bears and primates, just to name a few. But these animals are also pets to pet lovers who, I think, would not want them to end up on dining tables in restaurants and in people’s homes. However, there are some people living in remote places like in forests, jungles, mountains who may not have access to the modern world. Hunting for game is a part of their way of life. They hunt to live, not live to hunt.
Another examples of animal cruelty – Trophy Hunting. Photo credit: Humane Society of the United States
Farmers who grow vegetables and fruits for commercial profit are not innocent either. The use of chemicals in pesticides and in fertilisers kill billions of insects, worms and other living life forms that feed on vegetables and fruits. The so-called organic farms are not that many to cater for the human population, provided those farms are really organic ones. Farmers have little choice but to use chemicals for good yield else they may not be able to profit. At the end of the day, it is about profit. Farmers and companies that kill animals view animals as food. To them animals meant for the abattoir are cash in the bank, similar to robbers who see their victims as money bags and would not hesitate to hurt or even kill for it. The end does not justify the means.
There are many options for healthy food aside from growing our own vegetables and fruit trees. Yes, time is needed to prepare and till the soil, plant seeds, water, weed, fertilise but it is up to us to allocate the time if we want a diet consisting of non-meat food that is healthy and which spares animals from being slaughtered. Vegetables, fruits, nuts, rhizomes, roots all have the necessary ingredients and high fibre for good health. Some people think that a non-meat diet is expensive. On the contrary, it is not. The benefits from non-meat diets outweigh medical bills one has to fork out when one has sicknesses related to eating meat filled with chemicals and antibiotics. Therefore, it is worthwhile to change our eating habits to do so. It is worthwhile for our children, family and loved ones. It is up to us, we cannot change the world but we can lead by example. People wrongly perceive that non-meat food is not filling and not nutritious but the animal kingdom has huge herbivores that debunk this notion.
“Not eating animals is only unnatural when we are not used to it.”
~ Tsem Rinpoche
My Guru, His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche has been a strong advocate of a vegetarian lifestyle for many years. Watching videos of how animals are slaughtered is nothing compared to what the animals themselves have to go through in the slaughter house. These videos below are in fact a way to raise people’s awareness of how to stop eating meat and stop animal cruelty in any form, especially for food.
There is no such thing as mercy killing
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No one wants to die
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Even the youngs are not spared
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Left alone
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Behind the scenes
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这个世界各个角落的人谈论得最多的话题，非食物莫属。我们谈论自己的饮食、饮食喜好、哪种食物是美食、往哪里找美食、如何烹调自己爱吃的东西等。我们当中还有人会跟朋友分享食谱，为其他人烹饪试味道；有的人会远涉他地，只为了一尝他们耳闻或阅读到的美食。“老饕”这一词就正好诠释了对食物讲究、爱吃之人。如今，只要上网一搜，就能找到城中最美味的食物，而每一个国家都有自己独特的美食。就好比拥有多个民族的马来西亚是个美食天堂，因为每个民族都有属于自己的美食。将各民族的美食结合起来，便形成了独树一格的风味。说到底，每个人都有自己的饮食喜好——有的人爱乳酪，有的爱榴莲，有的则不爱。因此，食品工业是几十亿资产的工业。毕竟，常言道：谁都必须吃。
为了生存，肉食动物每一天都必须猎食。它们别无选择，若不猎食，就会饥饿死去。
图片来源：https://www.conservationinstitute.org/cheetah-facts/
相较于肉食动物和草食动物，人类作为杂食者在饮食上拥有更广泛的选项。肉食动物日日为生存而必须猎食。它们除了猎食充饥而别无选择。在动物世界中，它们必须猎食才能维生，而人类则是为吃而生存，将吃当成一种享受：从备食，到烹饪和上菜，每一个过程都可以是一种艺术。人类的美食大多都是以肉为主，以被屠宰的动物为主。
食品公司聘请专业行销人士向消费人销售一种概念，好让消费者购买食品公司包装华丽的食品。他们并不会向消费者透露食品的制作过程。那些从屠宰场运送出来的肉经过加工，如添加香料、色素和添加剂，使食品色香俱全。他们更会在打广告上砸重金。接着，食品公司再聘请大厨构思食谱，让消费者能在家中轻松烹食。为了那几秒的愉悦感——将食物咀嚼和吞下的那瞬间，我们是花了多少的时间和精力啊！尽管如此，我们依然一而再再而三地对那些美食念念不忘，因为我们对几秒钟的味蕾享受是如此执着。那个我们持续追求的味蕾享受不断萦绕在我们的回忆里，以至于我们可以忽视被囚禁在不见天日的空间的那些动物，它们的困境和痛苦。它们被关在既狭小又肮脏的地方，不是受伤就是患病。它们终其一生都在下蛋，给我们提供牛奶或幼子。人类为了能在最短的时间内获取它们的肉而不惜给它们注射荷尔蒙。生存条件如此恶劣，这也难怪疾病肆虐，而迫使禽畜农给动物们大量抗生素。这些抗生素最终被我们吃进肚子里，我们却看不见这一切。我们仍然将这些肉视作新鲜的肉品而垂涎之。不仅如此，为了获取动物的皮毛来满足人类穿戴皮革的欲望、为了使用动物制成品或是为了一解嘴馋，无数的动物被残忍杀害。更甚的是，在宰杀这些动物的时候，无人为它们注射麻醉药。在我看来，根本不存在什么人道的宰杀。
残害动物的其中一个例子：无数的动物被残忍杀害。这么做只为了满足人类穿戴皮革的欲望。图片来源：https://thegreenvegans.com
在一些国家，野生动物也被视作美食，好比蛇、鳄鱼、野猫、熊和灵长目动物等。但这些动物对有的人来说是宠物，我想这些人不会愿意它们被呈上餐桌上。当然，我们也不能忽略住在偏远地区如森林、深山中的人，他们的生活方式跟城市人的不一样。对将野生动物视作美食的城市人，打猎是生活中的一种游戏，他们以打猎为乐，而非以打猎为生。
残害动物的另一个例子：竞技狩猎。图片来源：Humane Society of the United States
以金钱利益当先的菜农和果农也不是例外。他们大量使用的杀虫剂和肥料里头的化学成分杀死了附在蔬菜和水果上的上亿的昆虫和其他生命体。所谓的有机菜园的数量也无法满足人们的市场需要，而且是不是真正的有机，尚是个未知数。为了大量收成好确保不亏钱，菜农和果农们没有太多选择而只能选择化学品。说到底，盈利才是最重要的。将动物视作食物的禽畜农和食品公司，对他们来说，动物本来就属于屠宰场，它们是银行里的钞票，就如抢劫犯视受害者为一大个钱袋，他们会毫不犹豫地伤害，甚至杀害受害者以获取金钱。人人都有爱钱之心，但这无法合理化他们的做法。
除了自己种植蔬菜水果之外，其实还有许多获取健康食材的方法。是的，要是自己种植，我们会需要时间培养泥土、播种、浇水、除草、施肥。然而，若我们有意持健康素，有意保护动物免受杀害，我们可以自己决定安排时间进行这一切。蔬菜水果、坚果和根茎类食物都具有人体所需的营养和纤维。有的人则以为素食昂贵，但事实却恰恰相反。素食饮食所需的费用远远低于因为吃肉而衍生疾病所需的医药费。因此，改变我们的饮食习惯是值得的，对我们的孩子、亲人和至爱都是值得的。决定权在我们手中。我们或许没办法改变世界，但我们能树立榜样。人们对无肉饮食总有错误观念，认为无肉饮食吃不饱也吃不好，但动物王国里许多草食动物的存在就能证明这是个误解。
「若觉得不吃动物是不自然，那是因为我们不习惯罢了。」
——詹杜固仁波切
我的上师，尊贵的詹杜固仁波切多年来都致力于推广素食主义。或许有人认为，观看动物被宰杀的影片很残忍，但比起在屠宰场被宰杀的动物，我们的“不舒服”不及它们所承受的痛楚的万分之一。以下这些影片其实能起提高人们意识的作用，尤其能鼓励人们停止吃肉，并且善待动物。
没有人道的宰杀
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谁都想活下去
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无辜的小生命也不得幸免
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被遗弃
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幕后真相
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https://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/otg/531.mp4
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Sad watching all these videos which paints a thousands of words of pain and disgusting. Just to satisfy human hunger and taste, poor animals were slaughtered for human consumption . Been a multiracial country Malaysia has plenty to offer for dinners. Many do not know where and how did those meat come from till they watch these videos . Its good to bring awareness to those people out there.
Thank you Rinpoche and Pastor Henry for this sharing.
It’s sad to see the animals being slaughtered to satisfy our taste bud. There are so many options and choices of food to prevent such killing. The obvious reason why certain human doesn’t realize this is because they taught that human is superior to animals and the existing of animals not only to provide food but even being use as clothing and hunting sport to human. This is totally cruel. How can we treat a living being as such? Can we tolerate if people take our skin for clothes, cut our flesh for food and shoot us as a sport? If not then how can we be alright for the animals?
Animals need care, love and peace just like us. Stop hurting animals and respect them. Give them the care, love as how we want from others. If we can’t give any of those but at very minimal pls don’t hurt them.
Thank you, Pastor Henry, for sharing this important message. There are a lot of suffering and killings happens behind walls that people are too ignorant to find out. Killings are very common and in fact, it is a necessary part of the whole industry to produce meat that most people loves. Little did they know where and how did the meat come from.
For us to have the meat, an animal will have to be butchered. There are plenty of suffering right from the moment where the animal is born. Usually, they will be separated from their mothers and start living in small and cramp places. Then, they will be fed an unnatural diet with plenty of growth hormones.
When they are in good size, the animals will be butchered mercilessly without sympathy. This is the life of a farm animal. So much of suffering and pain created just for the sake of us filling our hungry stomach.
Remember when I first started to going into vegetarian is when one of our colleague’s father passed away, so in order to help generate some merits for her father, I vowed to take vegetarian for a week, but unexpectedly, that week has passed very slow and difficult, every single day I have been counting down and the moment the clock strike 12am, immediately i wallop in chicken, seafood, mutton, etc.. (haha, I know this is not right, but just can’t be helped??), being a day vegetarian I have no problem, but being a week vegetarian, it became a challenge.
Until about 2-3 years later when Rinpoche gave me a DVD to watch, the title is “earthling” (this video also available in youtube), I saw how the animals being killed, how much pain they have to suffer before they die, and many more, my heart became very heavy and I struggled to watched till the end. Since then, I started to take more veges and less meat. I started to be 1 day vege a week, then increase to 2 days and eventually I only consume meat once or twice a month, almost 2 years later I decided to take long life vegetarian vow and till today I have became vegetarian for about 6 years already.
I’m glad to be a vegetarian because now when I take my meals, I don’t feel guilty anymore and I’m more happy taking my meals now as compared to last time.
Thank you Rinpoche and Pastor Henry for this article.
Is really sad to see how our deluded mind causes so much of suffering to the animal.
When I talked to friend, relative and etc, to stop consume meat and be a vegetarian or vegan, they will me give lots of excuse.
Let hope that, by sharing this article on social media, will create awareness.
Thank you Rinpoche and Pastor Henry for posting. My heart bleeds and mind pains for these beings, used as they are for the selfish wants of those who choose to consume their flesh. Vectors for disease, environmental disaster and unsustainability come to mind as we consider any future continuing on in such a deluded manner. The world simply can’t continue on exploiting animals to sustain human life. Unfortunately logic will not bring us to the forefront of change, we will be forced to realize the senselessness of the slaughter as we witness the cause that affects more and more suffering, which if you understand karma, will effect everyone in the long run. If you want to influence a positive result, stop eating meat. There are so many alternatives and if you think of the benefits all around, it really is a no brainer. Unfortunately a brain is required to see the lies you’ve been told to make you think your doing something healthy for yourself by eating animals. You may stave off hunger a short time, prolonging the inevitable, but you’ll die just the same, why drag so many others down with you?
Grateful that you posted Pastor Henry, many thanks once again. Sorrow seeing the sadness of this destruction of life, happiness in knowing others see a solution in their refrain.
每天上社交媒体，最多人刊登，也获得最热烈反应的，往往都是跟美食相关的帖子。中国人说“民以食为天”，又说“食色性也”，人类爱美食似乎是自然不过的事。这其实并不过分，毕竟作为人类，我们时时刻刻都受到各种感官上的诱惑，相对而言，爱美食并不伤害他人，而且跟其他欲望比起来，这算是无伤大雅的。然而，我们往往忽略了一点，即如果你是肉食者，你的爱美食其实就不是那么单纯，因为你送进口里的每一口肉类美食，其实都代表着一个生命的牺牲。动物的确必须因为你口舌之欲而牺牲，这是个事实，但很多不想听，不想看，或根本不敢看这些宰杀场的视频。敢吃而不敢看，那跟掩耳盗铃有什么两样呢？
It is true that a lot of emphasis is based on food and the human consumption of same, whether we are meat eaters or vegetarians. Is this obsession of food be an imprint from having suffered hunger in our lives? It is pretty amazing that the first thing asked of a greeting amongst friends especially the Chinese is HAVE YOU EATEN.
Family members spend hours talking about what food they have consumed for lunch and dinner when they met before the close of the day.
Pastor Henry is correct that we HUMAN BEINGS live to eat. Something we will not avoid nor will let go off. So why not do something worthy with this attachment and to a certain degree our need to survive starvation. Eat with compassion and not kill for our food.
One compelling point to letting go of being so obsessed with our food is to remember how good food we consume, they all come out of us the same mess of waste.
Eat sufficiently not to die of starvation and eat compassionately. Most of all do not waste food.
Interesting article……thank you Pastor Henry Ooi to bring awareness of how animals were killed for human consumptions. Do agree when it comes to foods , every one will be thinking of what to eat but will not realised the source of it. Malaysia is food heaven with a wide variety of foods and dishes from different ethnic groups. Generally people are eating more and eating higher-caloried food, and its time to change for more healthier foods. The cornerstone of a healthy diet should be to replace meat and processed food with real food such as vegetables, fruits and so on whenever possible. Eating food that is as close as possible to the way nature made it can make a huge difference to the way you think, look, and feel. Eating a variety of foods promotes good health and can help reduce the risk of disease in many ways.
Thank you so much for this article. This article is mainly about foods. It is true that Malaysia is considered a country that has good food due to its multiracial population. Humans being non-vegetarian have a far greater choice of food compared to the vegetarian ones.
At the same time, countless animals are brutally butchered for their pelt, skin and meat, just to provide for human desire to wear leather products, to use animal by products and to consume them as food.
Thank You Pastor Henry for this post.
I believe awareness is the key here. We are not being aware that we actually KILLING these animals for our food. For many years, I’ve been having this wrong concept too, whereby animals are God’s given right for us to eat and stay healthy. Nonetheless, I was wrong. Very wrong.
Okay, maybe my upbringing did shape the person who I was previously but that doesn’t justify the person for who I am now. Being aware is the first step but next, we have to take charge of it NOW and decide what’s going in my mouth next. Watching these videos, is so heartbreaking. Can I take it anymore? Nope. I am sorry. Even if it’s God’s given right, I will still opt for being a vegetarian. Their suffering is real. Their pain is real. Meat is off my plate for 5 years now and I’m happy about it, and I will be so for the rest of my life. Just like Pastor Henry has mentioned, thanks to Rinpoche for keep highlighting their plight.
I’ve changed. Are you next? I