Zen 禅悟人生 -My way of Seeking a Balance life

[dolphinsiah]

Good morning and :thankyou: Hyperkiasu and Osim

for the kind comments.

To me by sharing good teachings/thoughts/videos/quotes is a way to equip us to face challenges in this complex society...

Today is finally Friday....the last weekend of CNY.....

May all of you have a Blessed weekend....

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[dolphinsiah]

Some of us stay away from meat due to diet or religion commitments.


Eating less meat also help to generate less pollution.

So for a Better Health and Environment Eat Less Meat!!!

Bon Appetit!!! :celebrate:

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[dolphinsiah]

Eating Healthy Starts from Young...

Good Habits Starts from Young too...

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世间没有饿死的人,
只有吃太多病死的人。
【好好爱惜自己!】


年少不养生,年老养医生, 山珍海味享受以为是口福,
未必,那是在消福种富贵病; *清茶淡饭是委屈吃亏吗?

不是!吃亏更是赚到更多的福报, 世间没有饿死的人,
只有吃太多病死的人。

学习素食保你健康又长寿,美容养颜又省钱。

活力充沛赤子心,人老心永远是春天。

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[osim]

I would like to gradually, very very gradually convert my family, especially my DH and me to eat no meat. Every time I clean meat in my kitchen, My conscious ask me what if this slab of meat is from your body, what kind of trauma and pain would you have had? Then I just suppressed it by mentally pushing the thought away. :siam:


Other than this reason, I also think the meat these days are not healthy for human consumption as they contain residue of hormones and antibiotics injected/fed to the animals. Also they are not happy because of the very stressful living condition they grow up in and they they pass all these negative vibrations to us when we eat them.


Dolphin, any lobang for support group for people to learn vegetarian cooking?

[dolphinsiah]

osim:

I would like to gradually, very very gradually convert my family, especially my DH and me to eat no meat. Every time I clean meat in my kitchen, My conscious ask me what if this slab of meat is from your body, what kind of trauma and pain would you have had? Then I just suppressed it by mentally pushing the thought away. :siam:


Other than this reason, I also think the meat these days are not healthy for human consumption as they contain residue of hormones and antibiotics injected/fed to the animals. Also they are not happy because of the very stressful living condition they grow up in and they they pass all these negative vibrations to us when we eat them.




Dolphin, any lobang for support group for people to learn vegetarian cooking?

Agree nowadays the way animals are reared are rather cruel....

Watch the Film Food Incorporate...and you understand why....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szvo7cOC6TU][/youtube]

[dolphinsiah]

osim:

Dolphin, any lobang for support group for people to learn vegetarian cooking?

Try my favourite video clip channels : Youtube

Here's one:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv6W-1geTVY][/youtube]

Happy Cooking...

[dolphinsiah]

Watch this good documentary : SuperSize me


Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject in this documentary about the commercial food industry.
After eating a diet of McDonald's fast food three times a day for a month straight Spurlock proves the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food.
Spurlock also provides a look at the food culture in America through it's schools corporations and politics. \"Super Size Me\" is a movie that sheds a new light on what has become one of our nation's biggest health problems: obesity.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-eRXuuH9AI][/youtube]

[dolphinsiah]

[quote]

Agree nowadays the way animals are reared are rather cruel....

Watch the Film Food Incorporate...and you understand why....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szvo7cOC6TU][/youtube][/quote]This film was shown on ChannelnewsAsia 2 years ago

Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner. The film examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees.

The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences.

[osim]

Thanks for video on the mix vege. I wonder how that guy can use the ball cutter on carrots, it’s so hard.

[osim]

I was watching that video you put up about raw food but decided to save it for later as I want to watch together with my family. I want my children to know what is going on behind the food they eat everyday.  Will try to download a version for watching on TV. Thks for the link.


Coincidentally, I am currently reading the book "The Omnivore Dilemma - the secrets behind what you eat" by Michael Pollan. (wonder if that guy in the video is him)

It talks a lot on how the glut from corn farming due to hybrids and GM corn seeds from  companies has caused a whole chain of effect on the food and farming industry and affect the food we consume.

Now I understand why grass-fed cows and grain-fed chickens cost more than corn-fed ones.  They feed all these animals for human consumption with food unnatural to their diet because corn is so very cheap.

I read once in Time magazine about the extend one should go organic in their food consumption.  It was adviced that we can eat non organic for vegetables as pesticides can be washed off but for meat, milk and eggs, it is more important to go organic to avoid the hormone and antibiotics and not forgetting other drugs that they use on the animals to make the animals dopey so they don’t fight in the crammed living space.