Vegans, vegitarians, and anyone else...please help?!
Vegans, vegitarians, and anyone else...please help?
information here:
http://www.koreananimals.org/index.htm...
who to write to here:
http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/korea/ko...
you don't have to donate or anything, just a simple letter to the korea government officials about this abuse will be wonderful!
this is not a moral on eating meat or anything (so please don't comment meanly about that), it is simply asking you to help stop dog and cat torture (wich is illegal even here in korea). Eating meat is one thing, purposly torturing companion animals for their "adrenaline rush" to make the meat "taste better" is a completly different (not to mention sickening) thing!
dogs being tortured befor kill, and cat being boiled alive has to stop here! since our government is not taking action, we ask for your help. If you do not agree with this, please just dont comment, I'm not forcing anyone to do anything. thank you =)
Answers:
i think its very nice of u to do this cuz i like totally agree it should stop
It should stop but they won't.
I'm working on it now.
Since Jains follow a strictly vegetarian diet, they do not need "Kosher" standards. However, to observe a compassionate diet to the maximum possible level, Jainism offers some guidelines to observe, as described below.
First of all, Meat, Alcohol, eggs , honey, Fish, etc. are not allowed in Jain diet. Many Jains consume Milk even though it is an animal product, because it is not a direct animal product as meat would be. Traditionally, in the Indian society, cows were part of the family. They were treated humanely, taken care of until natural death in sanctuaries, and the baby calf was allowed to suckle all the milk until its needs were satisfied. Only the surplus Milk was used for human consumption, so the principle of nonviolence was upheld. Neither calf was deprived of its need nor the cow had to undergo any tortuous life. But in the modern world cows are kept in factory farms and the milk has become a product of violence. Upon learning this, more and more Jains are now turning vegan. We support and promote veganism. The first Jain criteria, therefore, would be to avoid any food which involves violence.
The main base of Jain diets is grains like wheat, rice, and barley. In America, we have also adopted corn and oats. We also have adopted a variety of foods like pasta, bread, pizza, pita, tostadas, etc. into Jain households. As with many other Asian countries, the traditional Indian diet was healthy, but affluence and modernization has led to high fat diets and unhealthy lifestyles.
However, our traditions revolve around control of the senses. For example, many people voluntarily give up sweets, or other items for a certain time period.
Jain traditions observe certain restrictions for fruits and vegetables. Although all Jains do not practice, many avoid taking roots, such as potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, etc. If you wonder why, here is the answer: to minimize violence. Because even if you pluck hundreds of oranges from a tree, you are not destroying the whole tree. However, when you pluck one single carrot, you uproot the whole plant. When so many vegetables are available without destroying a whole plant, why destroy some? Then there is one more reason. All roots have countless (Anantkay) souls under one body (skin). Our need that can be satisfied with one cupful of underground roots (which would have countless souls) could also easily be satisfied with countable peas or beans. So why kill so many more souls? Therefore, the second Jain criteria is not to eat root vegetables.
You may observe that some fruits and vegetables have only one or few seeds, while some have many seeds. We believe that each seed represents a potential life. True, we have to eat something in order to survive, but we want to minimize violence by taking as few as possible of those multi-seeded fruits and vegetables. So that is the third Jain criteria of food choices.
Dry beans are considered acceptable for Jains. They are a good source of proteins, vitamins, and other nutrients. Although there are no restrictions on beans, the process of sprouting can be an issue. Sprouting is a process in which life is activated in a seed that had otherwise become inactive. This is viewed as violence by some Jains. So they accept as the fourth Jain food criteria: no sprouted beans.
There are many more minute criteria which are contained in the scriptures. However, very few Jains follow them. But, very few Jains would ever resort to eating meat.
Another criteria about foods is that one must strive to eat before sunset. That gives plenty of time for the digestive system to do it its work. We are the creatures of day, so our systems want to shut down theirs functions after dark. So it would be good for our health also, to eat before sunset. Besides, many visible and invisible lives thrive at night times. By eating after sunset, we are at danger of consuming them. So the Jains try to eat early in the day. But this does not go very well with the modern industrialization. In northern hemisphere, away from equator, the days during winter are very short, and the sun sets very early. Even under these circumstances, many Jains would attempt to eat as early as possible, after sunset.