Theos-Talk Archives (December 2011 Message tt00029)

I believe if any meat eater has a chance to visit a slaughterhouse, the can
first hand see what cruelty is going on. Most cannot stand it and it will
make them think. Years ago, high schools used to take the students on a
tour and it was found many of them turned away from meat after the tour and
the slaughterhouses stopped the tours.

Once someone becomes a vegetarian for ethical reasons, no one can change
their decision for love or money.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Jayananda Hiranandani <
professorjaya@-VXk38n9T1GU7t_OA4Klf-F1EXv1KFA1N8cXmZoRs-yr3fHJ7MLqXAFkxM3WaLRnfz2IU-iZWLACeM4gDRo.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

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> Dear MKR:
>
> Many thanks for your informative response.
>
> About vegetarianism in the West, I wish to add as follows.
>
> A few months ago I was talking to a doctor. I asked him about super bugs.
> His reply was that these are varieties of disease causing organisms that do
> not respond to antibiotics. He said that this happens because the meat
> producing animals are fed with hormones, pesticides and antibiotics to
> increase productivity. The result is that human consumption of the same
> leads to resistance to antibiotics.
>
> Thus, besides ethical reasons there are health reasons also for
> vegetarianism.
>
> Not only this, but there are economic reasons as well. it takes less land
> to support vegetarian diet than the non-vegetarian.
>
> Thanking you,
> Yours cordially,
> Jayananda H. Hiranandnai
>
>
> --- On Thu, 12/1/11, MKR <mkr777@tKTji4jzO10AgdSfswguzByV_IMbfeglhiUiT4DRahpGcNqpXpdBn-KaIXKRrUA3peDXx27DVUaaGa0.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> From: MKR <mkr777@tKTji4jzO10AgdSfswguzByV_IMbfeglhiUiT4DRahpGcNqpXpdBn-KaIXKRrUA3peDXx27DVUaaGa0.yahoo.invalid>
> Subject: Re: theos-talk Universities in India to phase out animal
> dissection for experiments in colleges
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 9:15 PM
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>
> Thanks for you comments.
>
> The basic issue is very simple. Do I want to participate in any cruelty?
> Definitely not.
>
> Most people do not think in these terms. Many try to use various reasons to
> justify cruelty. In the West, slowly, vegetarianism is spreading mostly on
> the basis of ethical reasons.
>
> Changes are coming, even though slowly.
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jayananda Hiranandani <
> professorjaya@-VXk38n9T1GU7t_OA4Klf-F1EXv1KFA1N8cXmZoRs-yr3fHJ7MLqXAFkxM3WaLRnfz2IU-iZWLACeM4gDRo.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> > Dear MKR and others:
> >
> > Many thanks for this item. It is good that you brought it to the notice
> of
> > this forum. I wish to supplement it as follows.
> >
> > This is a good first step. I would like to know what about educational
> > institutions outside India, especially in the West.
> >
> > I myself did not want to study biological sciences and related fields due
> > to vivisection.
> >
> > There are many other fields in which this reform is long overdue. Take
> the
> > pharmaceutical industry. Animals used in religious sacrifices. performing
> > animals, research institutions in biological sciences are more examples.
> I
> > wish to see the abolition of slaughter houses. Old animals should be
> cared
> > for like elderly people and should die a natural death. I may be
> > considered an extremist by some. In " The Light of Asia", it is described
> > how Lord Buddha preached and the animal sacrifices were banned by the
> King.
> > Nanda Lal Bose, the well-known painter of Shantiniketan, has made a
> picture
> > of this. Also how Lord Buddha treated a bird shot by Devadutta is another
> > interesting and touching story.
> >
> > Some of the readers may have know the late Dr. Jean Raymond. I wish that
> > I had known here more. In one of the conversations we had in Adyar, a cat
> > came to her. I asked her that did the cat belong to her. She said, and
> this
> > has made me revere her, "animals do not belong to us, but we belong to
> the
> > animals for the love and trust they put in us."
> >
> > Jayananda H. Hiranandani
> >
> >
> > --- On Wed, 11/30/11, MKR <mkr777@tKTji4jzO10AgdSfswguzByV_IMbfeglhiUiT4DRahpGcNqpXpdBn-KaIXKRrUA3peDXx27DVUaaGa0.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> > From: MKR <mkr777@tKTji4jzO10AgdSfswguzByV_IMbfeglhiUiT4DRahpGcNqpXpdBn-KaIXKRrUA3peDXx27DVUaaGa0.yahoo.invalid>
> > Subject: theos-talk Universities in India to phase out animal dissection
> > for experiments in colleges
> > To: "theos-talk" <Theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 5:53 AM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Universities in India to phase out animal dissection for experiments in
> > colleges
> >
> > It is a welcome news for many theosophists who are against animal
> > dissection and vivisection that a policy decision has been taken in India
> > to phase out animal dissection. Here is the full article:
> >
> > <http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article2661412.ece>
> >
> > Thanks for two theosophists who brought this to our attention.
> >
> > MKR
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