The Meat On Your Table...

It's a fine Sunday morning.

As I was sipping my favorite black sugar-less coffee, I flipped through the morning newspapger.

One headline caught my eyes instantly...

"So much cruelty just for meat on the table" written by Prof. Peter Singer. Prof Singer is a professor in bioethics at Princeton University.

If you're like me, your eyes will probably be glued to that article. Mine did. And I read word for word from start till end.

That article was discussing how meat product was cruelly produced, as the title has stated.

If you may, please allow me to quote some of the extracts which I would like to share with you today...

"...People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered taht beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings) and slaughterhouse waste..."

Now, isn't this new?

Here's another one...

"...Tens of billions of chicken produced today never go outdoors. They are bred to have voracious appetites and gain weight as fast as possible, then reared in sheds that can hold more than 20,000 birds. The level of ammonia in the air from their accumulated droppings stings the eye and hurts the lungs..."

Now, this is really stinking! Yuck! There goes my planned chicken lunch today!

How about the eggs?

Here, read this extract...

"...Conditions are worse for laying hens crammed into wire cages so small that even if there were just one per cage, she would be unable to stretch her wings. But there are usually at least four, often more.

Under such crowded conditions, the more dominant, aggressive birds are likely to peck to death the weaker hens in the cage. To prevent this, producers sear off all birds' beaks with a hot blade. (Ouch!) A hen's beak is full of nerve tissue but no anaesthetic or analgesic is used to relieve the pain..."

Now, the eggs that we're eating, come from them!

But wait, what about the food value that we're getting from them?

The last extract I'd like to share with you...

"...When we confine animals in factory farms, we have to grow food for them. The animals burn up most of that food's energy just to breathe and keep warm. So we end up with no more than one-third, of the food value that we feed them.

By contrast, cows grazing on pasture eat food that we cannot digest, which means that they add to the amount of food available to us."

This reminds me of the report which my girlfriend, Janice, has compiled recently. If you have not gotten it earlier, you can get it FREE at Vegetarian Recipe Guide now.

One of the point in the report stated that the number of human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock is shockingly at 1,300,000,000!

So, the food that we could otherwise eat has gone into these animals, and how much do they provide us?

See these, and you'll get the idea:

~ 16lbs of grain and soybeans are needed to produce 1lb of feedlot beef

~ 5lbs of protein fed to chickens is needed to produce 1lb of protein as chicken flesh

~ 7.5lbs of protein fed to hogs is needed to produce 1lb of protein as hog flesh.

Now isn't this a great loss, considering that more than 60,000,000 people are in risks of starving to death?

Now, what a morning to start with... especially on a fine Sunday like today!

But, thanks to Janice, she cheered me wonderfully today!

And I really have to thank her for her effort to share her discovery about our food with her FREE report "The Shocking Truth And Statistics About Your Food!" which she's currently giving away to anyone who takes time to visit her site at: www.VegetarianRecipeGuide.com now.

As for you, thanks for dropping in and read this blog. Have a wonderful Sunday, and may the Energy of Tai Chi be with you!

Cheers,
Guan
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Education, Benefits And Prawn Village

Last Sunday, I was invited to a small fishing village to give a talk...

In conjunction with our local university students, who organized the education fair to create more awareness in a small peaceful village called Prawn Village in our local language.

You see, this village livelihood mainly depends on either fishing, or rearing fish. At least 70% of their income are from the sea.

Their children will help out in their work, after school. And usually, when they're into the secondary level, their motivation to study will drop very significant.

Most of them will drop off after O-Levels...

Thus, the exhibition, and the talk...

Been a firm believer in life-long learning and education, this is quite a challenge for me.

For example, how would you make them see, that education will help their livelihood. How will education benefit them?

I went to the hall early, and mingled with the organizing students, and a few parents there.

I asked around, and check the courses offered by the various university.

You'll probably have the same idea...

Of course, giving a talk about education, I cannot leave out Confucius' teachings on education, by quoting a few of His sayings, to give them that education has been seen as important since long, long time ago...

And quickly I bring them to see the benefit of education to their profession and the development of their villages.

There're marine science courses...

There're bio-technology courses...

There're aqua-culturu courses...

There're genetic technology courses...

All these, I link directly to their livelihood - what the FISH!

I shared with them:

You can rear bigger fishes, in lesser time. You can use technology to help them identify fish pools. You can develop more sickness-resistance fishes.

Then, I move on to other courses...

You'll need marketing expertise to market your fishes, if you rear more with those technologies...

You'll need accounting and finance professional to keep and analyze your records on fish sales...

You'll need management skills to take over your fishy business... (family business mindset are strong here)

You'll need computer technology to improve your systems...

You'll need social science to work on rural development and enhance Prawn Village...

Aha! Now they see it!

Well, the trick is - to always relate something back to their interest, their livelihood... in this case, education!

And they were so participative in my 45-minutes short presentation. They loved my talk. I can see it from their eyes, their nods (not dozing off, of course!), their smile...

(Well, the organizers told me later... the previous talks they organized were slapped with poor response!)

Of course, I did 2 activities with them - one to break the ices and get them to have fun before I began the serious talk, and another one to illustrate the point about education.

After the talk, one of the owners of a local fish rearing facility, walked up to me, shaked my hands, and said gratefully, "Thank you for your talk! Thank you for insights!"

"You see, I dropped off after O-Levels 29 years ago to help my father in his business. I never had any chances to further my studies."

"All these years, I know that I could have done more to improve my technics, and business. But, my knowledge is very, very limited! How I wish I have the opportunity to further my studies, to have more knowledge than I am now!"

"Experience counts, but this is how much I can have. So, with your enlightening talk tonight, I'm so impressed as it reflects what my heart have been yearning for..."

"And I will, I promise, that I'll let my grandchildren, 9 of them, to go for higher education, and have more knowledge and bring it back to develop our little village!"

"Thank you so much!"

My oh my! I was speechless!

The organizers, they too, loved it...



And guess what - the talk was totally different from what I've prepared in that afternoon... except with the few same lines I took of from Confucius Analects...

And oh, I was thinking to record the talk and share it with you... but it's in Chinese. So, perhaps, if the time allows, I'll try to transcript it in English and post it up here.

Till then, Confucius' idea on education lies in applying what you've learn - in this case, to the benefits of Prawn Village's rice bowls... as Confucius said, "Isn’t it joyful to learn and apply what you have learned consistently?..." [Chapter 1, Paragraph 1]

Till then, have a great weekend! :)

cheers,
Guan
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It's The Game!

Well, World Cup is going to start in less than 1 day.

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Yours sincerely,
Guan

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The Shocking Truth About You Food!

On this blog, you probably noticed me talking about my girlfriend, Janice.

Well, you know what?

In this post, I'm going to really talk about her...

You see, few weeks ago, she began searching on the internet, about vegetarian recipes.

If you're very keen like her, you would know that she's gathered a large amount of information from the net.

And when she showed me one of the material she has researched on, a report, I was completely SHOCKED!

I couldn't believe my eyes!

It's regarding the food that we are eating, right on our tables!

It consists of proven statistics and facts about our food, how it is produced, food related health issues and a lot more...

Oh, well... that doesn't mean you'll change your eating habit after reading that report, but at least, you know some undisputable truths which you've been LIED to all this while!

Yes, I repeat: You've been LIED to!

And Janice and I want to put it up straight for you...

So, after some soul searching and extended discussion, I suggested to her to put it on her website and give it away for FREE.

The e-report's title is "The SHOCKING Truth And Statistics About Your Food!", and yes, you can get it for FREE without any obligation at:

http://www.VegetarianRecipeGuide.com

But well, you need to register in order to download it. This way, Janice will be able to send more information that she's researched about food and vegetarian tips to you.

So, if you are dead serious about understanding the food that you're eating now, right from your dining table, get the FREE report now at:

http://www.VegetarianRecipeGuide.com

And oh, she's putting it up for trial... and may want to take it down soon. So, hurry up!

Enjoy discovering the truth about your food today!

Cheers,
Guan

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