Monthly Archives: August 2013

Food for Thought, Part 2

Vegetarianism as a condition
Case 1: Tara
Tara took an ethics class on Animal Liberation and was regularly exposed to literature and media portraying the cruelty at factory farms and slaughterhouses. She started to feel bad for the suffering animals. Every time she ate meat, she would feel like she was making an active decision to participate […]

Food for Thought, Part 1

Many Thais with Chinese roots believe in Guanyin, the compassionate Bodhisattva. It is believed that she traded her arm for her father’s ticket out hell so that he could subsequently be reborn as a cow. Today, many say that they pay homage to Guanyin by refraining from eating beef, as she did in that lifetime […]