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| From ChinaDaily |
[Originally published on December 28, 2006, without the image added today, purportedly a photo (dated December 15, 2011) of dogs being saved from slaughter in China.]
My “dogs” post of yesterday [December 27, 2006] can be interpreted as expressing a great sadness. And I have to admit I wrote it in a solemn mood. But meditating on the food chain (how animals are violently killed and eaten by bigger or stronger ones) can bring on sadness. Every time I eat flesh I feel sad for the mammal, fowl, or fish that was once alive to enjoy being alive – or not to enjoy it much, if it was raised in a cage only to be slaughtered. In fact, I guess, we are in a sense all in a cage by virtue of the apparent fact that being alive today means we will die tomorrow.
“Creation” includes both pain, violence, suffering, death...and pleasure, gentleness, joy, life, however brief. I don’t mind being sad about this, actually. I think that’s preferable to a careless quest for laughs, thrills, distractions.
Good on all who read this, to overrunning cup.
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