Thanksgiving Puzzle

I almost forgot that today is the Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., a holiday I usually give prayer to hundreds of thousands of slaughtered turkeys. A long time ago while we were still high school kids ,my brother and I wrote essays about the cruelty of killing turkeys to celebrate the Thanksgiving Day. It was so ironic to watch the commander in chief virtually spared one turkey to show off his compassion while millions of others being slaughtered at the same time. Why not spare them all, huh? Do you think that would tumble the farm industry? Don’t you think that would be environmentally friendly without killing the poor birds? In this environmentally conscious age everybody is talking about preserving our natural resources by recycling, yet we ignore the fact that preserving animals’ lives is actually saving our environment from pollution.

I think Thanksgiving was meant for us to be thankful for the harvest of this year. Isn’t it absurd to kill animals to celebrate our gratefulness toward our success, totally ignoring the fact that animals help us achieve our goal as in the case of farming. We have to admit that we human beings are sometimes contradictory, and we are not sure how to cope with it. We are lost, totally lost in coping with human existence, and we just follow our ancestor’s footstep, not aware that we have evolved substantially since then.

I am hoping for everyone to ponder this issue on your Thanksgiving table. Isn’t it time to give our poor birds a break?

Vegetarian

Bo’s sons, K and D, are born-vegetarians. They are very fastidious about food they eat to the extent of inspecting food ingredients every time they are offered food by strangers. With a compassionate heart for all beings, they are abstained from eating any animal by-products. As William Shakespeare said,” I do not want my stomach to be the tomb of dead animals,” they are truly the best abiders ever.

There are many advantages for being a vegetarian. First of all, it cultivates one’s heart of compassion. Secondly, it provides one with clear thinking without impediments from other souls of deceased beings. Thirdly, it prolongs one’s physical endurance. Fourthly, it helps to develop young-looking skins from within one’s body system. Lastly, longevity is no longer a fairy tale if one’s persistence of being a vegetarian continues.

K and D treat animals like treating themselves, they prevent any slight mayhem being imposed upon any beings of all sizes. Ants,insects and other micro-beings are always saved by them without a second thought. They believe that all sentimental beings ought to be treated equally. Bo has been ordered to escort micro-beings out of his house countless times since K and D were babies. Compassion is truly a fundamental element for all Buddhist kids.

Lots of top students are vegetarians, because they believe being a vegetarian provides them a clear head to think logically and wisely, and they believe that being a vegetarian enhances them to being a nicer person without spectral obstructions from deceased animals. Albert Einstein, William Shakespeare and other great people of the world are (were) vegetarians. I do not have time to search for their names, but I am sure my blog readers are going to find many if they google it.

Tigers are ferocious, but they lack of endurance of horses and power of oxen and elephants. Tiger’s teeth are triangular in shape, which are designed to eat meats; whereas the teeth of horses, elephants and humans are square in shape, which are designed to be vegetarians. Humans were vegetarians in early stages of evolution, but got avaricious for tasty meats, thus fell in the same trap as meat-eating animals. However, we human beings are very flexible, it is never too late to convert back.

Lots of people have the conception of vegetarians being weak and sexually under-privileged. I can tell you that this is absolutely absurd. Bo’s son D is 175 cm tall, and he is only twelve years old. D is aiming to be between 200cm and 215cm tall, and he is striving for the next generation NBA basketball team, hopefully will be here in Vancouver, BC again after the fiasco of Grizzlies. And Bo is !@#$%, the rest is up to your imagination.

Lots of Taiwanese girls admire the young skins of movie star “ Big S.” Did you know that “Big S” is a vegetarian? She is pretty, not because of her magic cosmetic creams, but because of her vegetarian diet to cleanse up her body from within. Cosmetics is for temporary cover-up, and vegetarian diet is for eternality.

Studies show that vegetarians generally have a longer life expectancy than omnivorous and carnivorous people. The reason for this is simply because vegetarians have less acids in their body systems than omnivorous and carnivorous people. Acids corrode body cells and thus make young cells old.

Life is wonderful because one is never too late to make some changes in it. Knowing so many advantages result from being a vegetarian, isn’t it tempting for my blog readers to seriously consider this as a resolution? One does not have to be a vegetarian immediately, but at least give it a try on a gradual basis. Say, I just want to eat one meal with meats in it a day and gradually cut down the meat intakes. Maybe, by next year, you can be like Bo’s vegetarian family. Good luck to you all.

A Bison’s Outcry

A bison’s tears are trickling down from its hairy face when its life is about to end in the slaughterhouse, where the atrocity of execution by the so-called paragon of all animals is about to begin. When the metal head cuff starts to descend from its source, the bison vehemently struggles with all its might to see if it has a chance to escape the corralled cell. Knowing the chance is less than hitting the jackpot of lotto 6/49, the bison emits venom of hatred from within its enormous body to justify its agony.

Those people who enjoy their carnivorous delicacies are rarely aware of the scene behind every dish. Even if they are aware of what’s happening in the slaughterhouse, they would deliberately ignore the fact for the sake of savoring the meat on the table. If the gory atrocity of the slaughterhouse were to be played on DVD before every meal, then there would be no appetite for the carnivores to devour their preys on the table. More often than not, those people, who eat meats, try to think that meats are given by God for us human beings to enjoy, and therefore it is a natural instinct to eat meats like any other foods. But when we enjoy eating something, which is based upon suffering of other beings, then we have to delve into the validity of our “natural instinct.”

The fatal virus from animals is getting lots of attention from doctors, scientists, and the general public. To me, the mutated virus represents the venom of hatred from the slaughtered animals, and that is their way of silent revenge. Remember, they are sentient beings like us, the human, who has greed, hatred and infatuation of love. Since they are controlled by us, the paragon of all animals, there is very little they can counter us when they are alive. Once they are perished with hatred, they will seek vengeance in a mutated way beyond human’s realization. Today, people are getting smarter and wiser in understanding the concept of what I have just said, and willingly they convert themselves into the vegetarian diet.

However, some would argue that fruits and vegetables we eat today have micro-beings, like bacteria- like beings, in them. Doesn’t it make us swallow the sentient beings as well? Well, there is very little we can do about something which is beyond our control. For something within our control, we ought to boost up our compassion quotient to the maximum with our good intention. For those, who keep on stressing this issue, are the ones who try to find some excuses to validate their greed as carnivores.

Some ecologists might argue that animals will be extinct if we do not consume meats. Well, I would say,” That is very good because all lower beings will be reincarnated to a higher realm, of which they will have an equal chance of being exposed to Buddha-seeds, and hence an equal chance to reach nirvana.”

The night is drawing near. The killers of bison feel guilty and result in insomnia. Now they don’t want to kill the bison in a corralled cell with metal head cuff due to the fact that they are scared of bison’s outcry for vengeance. For the sake of leniency (they believe), they now kill the bison by shooting it from a faraway land without the bison knowing who kill it (they wish). The bison is LOL in the suspense between life and death as if telling the killers that it is smarter than they thought. Well, the bison can always reincarnate into, who knows, some beings to haunt the killers night and day to make the slaughterhouse and its pals extinct.