Vegetarian campaign during H.H. the Dalai Lama's Spring teachings

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Dharamsala, India March 13, 2007: His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave his annual

spring teachings on Shantideva's A Guide to the Boddhisattva's Way of Life

(chodjug) along with the 3rd Dalai Lama Gyalwang Sonam Gyatso's The Refined Gold

- The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (lamrim sershoonma) from March 4 to

March 13, 2007 in Dharamsala (North India). People from all around the world

flocked into this small place to listen to the teachings.

 

Outside the Dalai Lama temple, where the Dalai Lama is holding his teachings,

Tibetan Volunteers for Animals put up a stall to draw people's attention to

animal cruelty with banners, selling CDs and magazines. In the Buddhist religion

it is not acceptable to eat meat of any kind. Buddhists

believe in reincarnation and every living being has a right to live.

 

However in years gone by eating meat, as a supplement to a poor nutritional

diet, was accepted. These days it's not necessary anymore to eat meat for

nutritional purposes. There are plenty of substitutes available but some

Tibetans still eat meat out of habit, even when our religion does not allow

it.

TVA works to make people aware of this through education in schools and

being present at manifestations. TVA provide information about the benefits

of vegetarianism and the cruelties done to animals, for the sake of the

meat-eaters benefit.

 

TVA uses effective methods such as showing uncensored videos about animal

cruelty and showing interviews with people telling their personal opinion.

On 9th March, a video documentary was screened for about 1000 people. This

video of 1st hand evidence of the cruel practices currently being used on

animal farms and in slaughterhouses is shocking to say the least. Many sighs

of disgust were heard and many people looked away from the screen because

the footage was so graphic. However, it is necessary to see this footage in

order to understand the truth behind our dinner tables.

 

Cows that are not able to walk because the are kept in tiny spaces, pigs

that are thrown alive in boiled water, castrating little pigs without any

antistatic, skinning animals alive for their fur and letting them die on a

pile together with the others, butchering cows by slitting there throats and

letting them bleed to death, kicking and beating animals to death, the list

is endless. These methods were banned a long time ago in Europe but they are

shamefully

still widely practiced in India and Nepal. Today TVA is trying to put a stop

to these practices through education and by promoting vegetarianism. And its

working. Many people commit to being vegetarian. It is only through people's

refusal to eat meat that an end can be put to the senseless and cruel

slaughter of animals

 

For more information please visit www.FreeAnimal.org

Email: info

 

Hell on earth!

TVA's Stall outside the main temple

 

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Vegetarian Group in Tibetan Community

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