Saturday, October 3, 2009

Humans - Ever so Barbarous !!!

"How can he practice true compassion
who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh? 
                                                                  -- Thirukural


It so happened a few days back when one of my Mentors, a very inspiring person for anyone who wants to accomplish their brightest dreams - Dr. Manas Fuloria, raised a question in his blog about cruelty & pain afflicted over animals.
He requested his readers to approach some neighbouring restaurants so they switch to 'Cage-Free' eggs, where the eggs are laid by birds free to roam around unlike those in factory farms where they barely get space equivalent to the size of an A4 paper.
In this connection he wrote to the CEO of Keggs to offer 'Cage-Free' eggs in the market.
Voila!!! In came the new packaging for Keggs which now incorporated a 'Cage-Free' caption over its face.

Now that right there, to me was very inspiring.


This is however a restructuring of my comment to his post, but what matters more is that response which followed his Letter to Keggs, ever so strongly re-inforcing the fact that steps, nomatter how small they appear, are neccessary for large strides.

More often, people just dont initiate, thinking its a cause too small.....A CAUSE TOO SMALL !?!


The other day I was attending a party at a reputed hotel, there were atleast 500 people and the non-veg never ran out of supply. The hotel hosts such parties atleast twice a day, even on weekdays, and as if this wasn’t enough, they have their speciality restaurant which  caters to the demads of non-vegetarians at large.


To put it in an even larger context, just for food consumption, over 1 million land animals are slaughtered, in addition to a million more of marine animals/day in The U.S of A.


These facts, day-after-other are compelling me to give-up non-vegetarianism.


              
Factory Farming 

V/S.


Holocaust 


As for factory-farming…that’s cruelty to its core. People have no rights to curse Hitler for Auschwitz; factory farms are no less than Holocaust -- At KFC, an undercover investigation found out that chickens are drugged and bred to grow so large that many become crippled, and many have their throats cut while they are still conscious. At their slaughterhouse in West Virginia, its documented that workers were ripping off live birds’ heads, spitting tobacco into their eyes, spray-painting their faces, and violently stomping on them.

How bad does it have to get ??



That was one difference-making article, which I’m sure did motivate enough readers to go out and urge some of the restaurants to do their lil’ bit in for the bigger cause.


The Change begins with the one in the mirror, so let’s no more turn a blind eye to what’s happening around us.
 
God Bless All

Friday, October 2, 2009

Learn to Crawl before you learn to Walk.

I wanted to start blogging for quiet sometime now, but just couldn't find the clarity in my thoughts.
It wasn't long before I found out first hand that taking the initial step in blogging can be really crazy, particularly for someone like me who happens to be an absolute stranger to public writing,
Mind plays its own peculiar tricks while writing - The brain was loaded with information, yet felt so empty !!



"Alryt, I'll give it a shot now .... Wait !!! I'm Stuck, will leave it for later." -- this kept on happening with me as i thought of moving out of my comfort zone.
But then i had to take that First Step !! So sooner than late, i started commenting on various posts, as that was a good way to go about it....And the initial response to my comments propelled my drive furthur towards a blogpost.


However, an actual blogposting, for me was still proving to be a battle which i had to conquer, and sitting idle, just dreaming about it wasn't doing much of a help.
So, without much ado, i decided on advancing at a crawl, before i could learn to walk.

Keepin' it very simple, I'll begin with a modest post, so let's call it a picture blog with some old forgotten pictures over the web which made us Laugh Out Loud a lot back in the day :-)
(Click on the pictures to enlarge.)                                  



An essay On Surroundings.




An Essay On Grandparents.


Some random math nightmares  - Innocence meets Frustration

















Alryt frndzz, that's pretty much it for my first post. (HOPING that this small step may lead to a big stride someday)......And considering the inexperience, plzz pardon me if the title is not much appropriate for the post...hmphh!!! Some relief.