I found the following vignette in an anecdote book that had been left behind by an old uncle of mine. As you read the following story, think about what it means to you.
As Mahatma Gandhi was boarding a train, one of his shoes slipped off and fell on the track below. Since the train was already moving forward, he was unable to retrieve it. To the amazement of his companions, he took off his other shoe and threw it back on the track close to the other one. When a fellow passenger asked why he did so, Gandhi smiled and said, "The poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track will now have a pair he can use."
What lessons can you extract from that story? You can turn a loss into a win for yourself or someone else? Does this display an action that makes no sense? Could it make perfect sense, if we just dig deeper for the meaning? This to me is an incidental gleaning.
Think Tank: "The bad things in life, open your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before." ~ From the movie Good Will Hunting
Rabu, 27 September 2006
Selasa, 26 September 2006
This week's Observer article on broiler chickens
This week The Observer's supplement Food Monthly Magazine carries a good article on the conditions in which broiler chickens are reared and the RSPCA's Freedom Food scheme.
Of course it is not going far enough because it is not promoting a vegetarian diet, but it is good for a wide-circulation Sunday paper to devote space to the welfare of farm animals. I usually don't like The Observer, but in this case I have to say: well done.
Of course it is not going far enough because it is not promoting a vegetarian diet, but it is good for a wide-circulation Sunday paper to devote space to the welfare of farm animals. I usually don't like The Observer, but in this case I have to say: well done.
Senin, 25 September 2006
Give peace a chance
High School reporter writes for the Boston Globe about the Boston Mayor's 12th Annual Youth Summit.
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Welcome to Enhance Life
I've been reading other's blogs for quite a while and thought it was time I had my own.
In this first posting, I will tell you a bit about why I named my blog-Enhance Life and the sort of things you can look forward to.
I believe that life is a continuous effort of improvement. Isn't it? We read books, buy a car, follow further education etc. I could go on, but I think you get my point. Whether it’s improving our life style, attitude, knowledge, health, and wealth.... We are knowingly or otherwise, on a mission of improvement.
This blog will represent my opinions/ideas, based on my incidental gleanings and shared experiences of others. I’m hoping my entries will further enhance your life, and make it more gratifying, on its way to the “lost destination”!!
Thank you for dropping by. Stay tuned for future posts.
Think Tank:"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
In this first posting, I will tell you a bit about why I named my blog-Enhance Life and the sort of things you can look forward to.
I believe that life is a continuous effort of improvement. Isn't it? We read books, buy a car, follow further education etc. I could go on, but I think you get my point. Whether it’s improving our life style, attitude, knowledge, health, and wealth.... We are knowingly or otherwise, on a mission of improvement.
This blog will represent my opinions/ideas, based on my incidental gleanings and shared experiences of others. I’m hoping my entries will further enhance your life, and make it more gratifying, on its way to the “lost destination”!!
Thank you for dropping by. Stay tuned for future posts.
Think Tank:"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
Minggu, 24 September 2006
Freedom Award
One of the world's experts on sexual slavery and human trafficking, who has traveled the world to fight these abuses against millions of women and children, Salvation Army firebrand Lisa Thompson, head of the multi-faith Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking, received the Freedom Magazine Human Rights Leadership Award on Capitol Hill,
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Jumat, 22 September 2006
A letter to Cancer Research UK
Some health charities ask for donations to help people with diseases and disabilities and then spend the money they receive from a trusting (sometimes gullible) public to fund horrific experiments on dogs, rats, mice, primates, rabbits, hamsters, pigs, and other animals.
Instead of wrecking animals’ bodies in the application of a highly unreliable experimental method in pursuit of an impossible scientific answer, compassionate charities concentrate their funds on the research which holds the best hope for treatment: with humans. They know that we can find treatments through modern methods in alternative to vivisection, and they finance only non-animal research.
One of the charities which do fund animal experiments has written to me. This was my reply to them.
You can use this letter, indeed I encourage you to use it.
Letter to Cancer Research UK:
We have received a letter from your organization asking for funds. We want to inform you that we do not support your charity in any way, because you fund animal experimentation. This is a highly immoral practice, no less criminal than murder and torture. We find hypocritical that an organization that claims to be a charity and to take the moral high ground can fund such a criminal practice. You should take example from the charities which do not conduct or fund experiments on animals, such as Caring Cancer Trust, New Approaches to Cancer, Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research and many others.
Sincerely,
Signature
Instead of wrecking animals’ bodies in the application of a highly unreliable experimental method in pursuit of an impossible scientific answer, compassionate charities concentrate their funds on the research which holds the best hope for treatment: with humans. They know that we can find treatments through modern methods in alternative to vivisection, and they finance only non-animal research.
One of the charities which do fund animal experiments has written to me. This was my reply to them.
You can use this letter, indeed I encourage you to use it.
Letter to Cancer Research UK:
We have received a letter from your organization asking for funds. We want to inform you that we do not support your charity in any way, because you fund animal experimentation. This is a highly immoral practice, no less criminal than murder and torture. We find hypocritical that an organization that claims to be a charity and to take the moral high ground can fund such a criminal practice. You should take example from the charities which do not conduct or fund experiments on animals, such as Caring Cancer Trust, New Approaches to Cancer, Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research and many others.
Sincerely,
Signature
Are pesticides saving animals' lives?
"Kenya plans massive elephant translocation to ease human-wildlife conflict." We constantly hear news like this. In Africa in particular, animals living in the wild have to "make room", one way or the other, for a growing human population which uses low-yield, traditional agricultural methods and therefore requires much more land than if it used high-yield, modern methods involving pesticides.
Elephants and gorillas, among others, are always losing habitat to humans.
We know that occasionally birds and other non-human animals accidentally eat the pesticides and are killed by them.
The question is: what kills more non-human animals, pesticides or the alternative to them, the farming techniques which require much more land and destroy much more wildlife habitats?
Pesticides may be more good than bad for non-human animals.
Elephants and gorillas, among others, are always losing habitat to humans.
We know that occasionally birds and other non-human animals accidentally eat the pesticides and are killed by them.
The question is: what kills more non-human animals, pesticides or the alternative to them, the farming techniques which require much more land and destroy much more wildlife habitats?
Pesticides may be more good than bad for non-human animals.
Minggu, 17 September 2006
Youth for Human Rights International DVD presented to Prime Minister Blair
"When I saw the videos, I felt compelled to do something positive to promote human rights and told me wife that I wanted to start a Youth for Human Rights program in Barbados where I reside half of the year,
" said Grant. "Not in my wildest dreams did I expect to be able to personally present these inspiring video to Prime Minister Blair."
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" said Grant. "Not in my wildest dreams did I expect to be able to personally present these inspiring video to Prime Minister Blair."
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Selasa, 12 September 2006
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Minggu, 03 September 2006
Historic Human Rights Presentation at the United Nations
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted in 1948 by the United Nations, but was never able to be truthfully pushed forward by that body. Now, it's been brought full circle back to the United Nations by the Church of Scientology - with a massive delegation of human rights activists.
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