It's the first time that I post a link to my personal blog at Unity. I want to share with my friends. http://www.andrewboon.com/archives/1078 UPDATE: Regarding relevancy of this post and compliance with Rules. Some members noted that this post should be removed/moves since it doesn't accord with Unity Rules that we imposed just recently. Q. "Andrew, explain to me how you can impose these rules upon Unity members if you do not follow them yourself. By posting this blog, you are telling everyone that its OK to post blogs about whatever they damn well please. Or are you, yourself, exempt from the rules?: A. First of all, I believe that this post is exacly in accordance with BoonEx goal, meaning and mission. Maybe not the specific arguments, but the attempt. Second, BoonEx employees and owners ARE exempt from these rules and I can see no reason why it should be different. We have our own internal rules, family rules, etc. The Unity Rules are set in an attempt to moderate the community, not to guide the company operations. Thus, we can, for example post promotional posts, delete others' posts by our sole discretion, or even scrap the Rules altogether. If that sounds harsh or unfair, you obviously don't understand the situation. Third, whenever we consider shared content valuable, positive, helpful and otherwise contributing to goals and mission of this site - it may stay, even if it breaks the rules. Thus we can post Birthday congratulations, invitations to vote for us, public apologies or whatever we see fit.
True Andrew.
Cows are symbol of Love for 1000s of years. I can see that in those photos. You made my day.
Lots of Love.
im glad a cow is a symbol of love, i agree, i love to eat those suckers.
if this offends anyone, i assure you its not meant to. i just as lightwolf, was raised on a farm, with rabbits, goats, cows, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and see more
I cannot go without eating meat for more than 2 days MAX.
I do care though about how the meat I eat is raised, catered for and butchered! It has to be in a respectful way.
I also hate to see meat or food (especially on UK Childrens see more
I am working these days on my 1st Dolphin website www.oshoebooks.com/osholovers/ 300 ebooks to be uploaded to this site and i was reading an eBook of Osho and came across these lines, i want to paste those lines here...
"How do you know that something is food? -- if you are hungry and it satisfies you, you know. It is very difficult for a man who has no appetite to find out what food is.
Psychologists have come across a very significant fact: that if small children see more
http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Andrey_Sivtsov_Andrew_Boon
This is happening because people today eat what they shouldn't.. It's a sick world.. and this is reality!
Last year's July I became vegetarian too, so this month on 15 I celebrated that as one of my best achievements in life..
" mastermind "
on your 1 year anniversary!
Keep it up!
I work before in a vegetarian center more of 2 years and only eat vegetable make you agil but never strong.
The question is only meat from chicken or cow is really good for the human body . Other meat like pork I think is really dangerous for healthy life
We have an abundance of foods we can eat apart from animals, so why make them suffer?
When you see the full process of farming animals on a mass scale, it aint pretty.
Im not talking outer mongolia where they have to hunt to survive and eat every bit of the animal as not to waste anything....im talking about your supermarkets/fast food joints.
Its a personal choice at the end of the day, but breaking that chain can only be helped see more
In fact I was raised on a farm either. I saw chicken beheading since I was 3, I participated in pigs slaughter twice a year and it was a family "event". We've been given pigs tails and years for play - I was 5 or 6 y/o. I de-feathered bleeding ducks and hens. At the age of 20 I couldn't live a single day without meat. I was RAISED to be a carnivore. But I'm sure I was not born as one.
I was lucky to escape. Thank you Julia for your passionate and hard work... for your see more
Thank you.
I am not preaching, really, just sharing my understanding and happy to know yours.
What I was trying to express is that we are grown with this notion that meat is important. It becomes more and more important, actually. But, it all because of us, our own choice, which many of us make without full understanding of what we do.
Imagine that you've been raised on a banana farm... Do you think the world could live without bananas? Most definitely. We adapt. We make our see more
I was thinking about Mongolia, and cases alike. I'd eat meat if I had to. Even now, even after this film. There are situations, maybe even places where you can justify doing that.
The problem is that people don't eat meat because of hunger. They eat meat because of hunger for meat.
Now Americans eat the same amount of chicken EVERY DAY as they did in one whole year in 1930. What kind of physiological changes happened since then? Nothing. It's all about KFC, McDonalds and likes see more
Right now I am in Kyrgyztan. It's Summer. Tons of fruit and veggies, dirt cheap. Still, 99 out of 100 locals eat meat every day. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
I am sorry of I sounded like bashing Americans. I have nothing but respect and love to this nation and my highest hopes for change see more
Exactly! I was trying to express my views on a certain form, but it turned out to be that it's all about instinct. I just feel, but, sadly, I realize that my sensors are affected by other factors. So I look at my son and see him making choices of his own, but looking for my approval. He needs my wisdom, my advice, but I need his wisdom so much more. He still knows what is right. I just guess.
If I offer him choices - fruit, veg, meat, cooked food, he'd always choose fruit first, see more
you wrote this
( Look, I am his GOD, his absolute authority, his truth. )
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"You are not God", Andrey!
I have a pretty big ego myself. We all have egos (if you don't, you aren't human) but never say your GOD or GOD towards someone cause you are not!
But then being christian I believe that there is only 1 GOD!
That's one of those questions that will never be answered, I'm afraid. Scientists have tried, and you will hear good arguments on all sides.
I tried the vegetarian thing for three months. Ultimately, the craving for meat won the battle. It's interesting though, I've hated veggies my whole life. Once I made them my only diet, I not only started to enjoy them, I started eating new veggies as well.
After I fell off the veggie wagon, my see more
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
I know it probably wasn't your intention to get people riled up over this, but it's headed in that direction. I would not be surprised if tempers soon start flaring. I have some pretty strong opinions on this subject, but It's probably best that see more
Now, however I start looking at what I FEEL more and more, no at what I KNOW.
I love reading your comments. I am happy for I rave raised this subject again. I feel that I was right. Come what may.
You are trying to make humans into something to equal the gods. We are see more
"we are carnivores"
That's what I was TOUGHT by my parents, too. As far hard facts, general scientific consensus, or my personal observations I am not convinced. Not at all.
You sound sure and you bring up great points. Some can't eat tomatos, some prefer fish over meat, etc. I know people who eat only fresh fruit see more
Vegetarianism is not something that can be conclusively proven to be natural or necessary by any scientific measure. see more
That sums it up. I didn't want another Veg vs Carni debate. You're free to choose. I was sharing an observation of what I was doing wrong, and thought that somebody else might be interested. The observation is that I wasn't telling truth about meat to my son, thus depriving him of freedom of choice. Simultaneously I was teaching him not to squash insects, not to beat girls and not to lie. Didn't feel right, so I shared.
"As far as the details of application see more
My father was in Army, till 25 i ate meat 4 times in a week, no option was there.
When i married, my wife never ate meat from birth and a condition was there not to bring meat at home.
Later i ate at hotels, but slowly with meditation and awareness i skipped, but don't hate people who are killing and eating, they are just doing this because of unawareness.
Andrew's blog and the film "Earthlings" are like mirrors, we can see our real face there. Throwing the stones, see more
Are human beings anatomically more similar to natural carnivores or to natural herbivores? Let’s find out….
"Intestinal tract length. Carnivorous animals have intestinal tracts that are 3-6x their body length, while herbivores have intestinal tracts 10-12x their body length. Human beings have the same intestinal tract ratio as herbivores.
Stomach acidity. Carnivores’ stomachs are 20x more acidic than the stomachs of herbivores. Human stomach acidity matches that of herbivores.
Saliva. see more
Be happy.
A quieck question, to see if I understood your poing. Would it be right, according to your point of view, to eat animals as long as they don´t suffer when they´re raised/slaughtered?
I live in Spain, where there is a national tendency to make bulls suffer in all possible ways (not only in bull rings). They say "it´s a tradition" and off they go with the "celebrations". Of course, this is quite cruel. But from this point to saying that we should not eat animals see more
Regarding teeth... There's a bunch of myths about people being natural carnivores. All of them have been dismissed a good while ago, but people keep believing in age-old adages.
Re-quote:
"Intestinal tract length. Carnivorous animals have intestinal tracts that are 3-6x their body length, while herbivores have intestinal tracts 10-12x their body length. Human beings have the same intestinal see more
Here's my opinion:
http://www.andrewboon.com/archives/1078#comment-526
I, for one, still eat milk-based products. I know it's wrong (for me) and want to quit. Hope I'll do it asap.
first post did not work but copy and past the second two and then do some more research on what you are eating and then decide.
In the book of Daniel it is reported that he refused to eat meat and this was his only sin he commited when he lied about that.
For myself. I wasn't eating meat from my birth until I grew up and went out of my parents home. Still I prefer good vegetarian meals now. Most people don't know about the varieties possible. It's fantastic and you feel a lot more healthier and energetic than otherwise.
God said to Noah ...
Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you ...
I don't know if it's right or wrong, I just noted that I see a major break in connection, which we put to cover up ugly things from our kids and ourselves.
From your own Unity Blog Rules:
"Unity Blog is the place to discuss problems, ideas, suggestions related to BoonEx products and the BoonEx company. Do not post technical questions in the blogs. Please post it as the Answers section or the forums."
Andrew, explain to me how you can impose these rules upon Unity members if you do not follow them yourself. By posting this blog, you are telling everyone that its OK to post blogs about whatever they see more
But houstonlively, your comment forced me to say this.
How can you tell Andrew follow rules just for the sake of setting as example, or whatever you think? Today the world if facing a lot of environmental danger, just because of people who think the way you commented. They just think about their work, and never bother about what's happening around.
Even if one person decides to turn vegan because see more
Next time you see an angry bug and a coder talking in his blog about his butcher & barbecue evening, you can connect the dots and get to know the REAL STORY behind Dolphin. =D
Or have you stated a clause for every situation in the rules? Like "only I can update the site and have access to cPanel".
There is not going to be anything relaxing about this blog. Exactly what game is it that I played? Kindly explain that remark. If this was a personal blog area, I wouldn't give two shits what anybody posted. The simple fact is, this is NOT a personal blog area. This is a single blog with many different editors.... that's why there are posting rules.
If anyone other than a Boonex staff member posted a blog like this, per current rules, it would surely be deleted. We have see more
Right, except if we'd find that the post corresponds with the goal and meaning of our company and the way it's presented is adequate.
You assume it's equality and democracy at its purest. Could be right, if we were building the site together sharing costs, profits, challenges and failures.
We do have different roles here, however, and with all due respect, when see more
Think about it.
It is said in the Bible that we should eat the meats that God has giving to us on earth....
but in all honesty, this is my opinion, and i respect and admire Andrew for what he does with the Dolphin application, this post was not actually meant to take place here, i dont think. if see more
In my culture people didn't eat much veggies either. I was part of it.
It took years of time and most importantly lots of effort and will from my dearest wife to get me to the points where I am now.
Again, you have every right to think and act the way you choose. And if for any reason you decide to use your community site to deliver your idea - you have every right to do so.
Now, pretty please, don't hide my posts anymore.
Regards,
DosDawg
Non Vegetarian people who claim to fight for animal rights and non vegetarian environmentalists are the biggest hypocrites in the world !!!
I eat meat, and yes I do agree with you "Jerismith".
I am 100% an animal lover, always had Cats etc, and I recognise the same traits in animals as humans!
Were not talking see more
Dear Technoman, think technically...
for your eating they are killing...
when less n less demand, less animals will be killed.
You can eat them (if you have to), but you shouldn't kill them. It's technically impossible, so we should be looking for alternatives. We are fortunate to have those.
I am amused by the fact that they have time to post in this ridiculous blog, but they can't seem to find the time to enter a few D7 tickets in trac.
eat meat, it does the body good, just not the body where the meat came from.
Regards,
DosDawg
well, honestly saying i'm really busy.
finished with my engireening entrance exams a month back...and i DID NOT score well in them. For the last one i'm running here and there to get admission to some college.
My less marks in exam mean that i don't have the caliber to study computer science. The amazing fact is that they found it by testing my chemistry, physics and maths!!
And then i live in a state where we have powercuts of duration 12+ hours every single see more
Vegetarians that dont eat meat cause it's cruelity to kill animals for food.
Are you NOT feeding your animals meat all the time??
Animals like cats and dogs cannot be healthy without meat!
A snake eats mice
A fox eats rabbit
"whiskers" for animals is Meat and how many feed there animals this, well its the same thing there eating a killed animal to survive!
"I was talking about people who pretend to have compassion, even if applied to feeding, but fail to live up to their principles"
Now I have compassion for humans and animals, yet I eat meat, so you say this makes a liar out of me? I have given the last dollar i had for homeless people I try to help each day, and have and love animals and treat them as they were family, see more
Yes. This is my observation and my option now. Important note is that I also think that you don't quite realize that you lie.
You should be giving heavy thinking about using any community site if someone's thoughts put off so badly.
I don't see how I "attacked" meat-eaters. No bans for meat-eaters' accounts, no removal of pro-meat comments, no licenses cancellation to those who see more
Is it a language barrier or you're just not listening? I didn't call you a liar. I specifically stated that I am not calling anyone here a liar, except for myself.
I found a disconnection of my beliefs and my deeds, reasoned that it's a lie and suggestion everyone to ponder on the subject.
You, not me, made a conclusion.
I wish you the very best.
It just seems to me that if it starts now, it will grow, and the next thing you know we wont be talking about dolphin anymore.
As regards "Matt says No" how can you ask a child if he could eat his new found friend? apart from not understanding the true question of course he is going to say no.
I have no reason to think that Matt didn't understand the question. I asked him exactly as things are.
Meat eating isn't something that humans have recently invented, meat has been an important source of human nutrition since early prehistoric times. The amount of vegetables in our diet has only increased with the dawn of agriculture within the last 10,000 years.
Humans see more
I am trying to ask my feelings about what's right and what's not. "Bread and dead mice" doesn't feel right. I'd try to change it somehow. Causing pain to a live being doesn't FEEL right to me either. Scientific reasoning or even logic is way less important. Even if we were created to eat meat doesn't mean we should keep on see more
It was when I started digging deeper into the harm that any and all kinds of food production cause, and that coupled with an understanding of plant sentience and our sort of sentience not being the navel of the universe, it scattered my marbles pretty good.
We only feel easy about killing plants see more
i disagree with your concept that this post is in alignment with your mission for boonex Dolphin. First of all, i see you made an attempt to have run this from your personal "wordpress" blog. Now you are right, "you" and "your staff" are as you state allowable to post whatever makes your (shoes lace), however, engaging those members who are bound by the rules to become enraged and purport that one person is worse than another because of any personal preference see more
Not all options to democracy or communism are anarchism. For example, the emperors and kings of yore were exempt from the rules. In the corporate world with a business like this, the imperator or CEO can easily use the company to further his idealistic goals, and I believe he is within his see more
because we are all from diverse backgrounds and from all corners of this globe, we all have different beliefs on what would make the world a better place to live. the bottom line here is that this see more
Little chats like this can have a thousand effects good and bad, and trust me I've seen and participated in dozens of threads like this in the past, and seen a great many take the royal road to hell.
Regards,
DosDawg
Let a thousand flowers bloom, and let's try to plant each flower in the right environment, too. I'm not sure Boonex blogs is the best avenue for discussing or advancing ideological aims, but Andrew has a right to give it a shot if he wants. He's done see more
Towards anyone who is a broccoli-head!
If you don't like the smell of burning meat, well then get off the planet, I love beef and so do millions of others, so deal with it!
I'll be damned if I let somebody else push their broccoli-head on me!
Andrey.. I don't go around promoting beef and shoving it in people's faces on here, maybe the beef lovers should start a new blog on here, then Andrey will delete it perhaps ?
This is a see more
"There's only that much impact that your reasons to come here have on how this place should be shaped. You're here for software, so you can find it here. But there's more to the place, and some people, including myself want it to be so, and if it's not so, want it to become so."
I have grand kids.
I have emotions, feelings and thoughts of my own.
I seem to have read entirely different meaning from "Matt said No".
It was stated that there were two calves in the field owned by a beautiful person who was ill that Julia evidently identified with and cared about. Some one whom she had compassion and respect for and looked up to as a friend and fellow human being stumbling down the road of life.
Matt and the calf he named "Mumunia" see more
Be happy people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXDvIqD9wQc
Regarding the great meat / veggie debate - I can take it or leave it. My partner is vegetarian, and i rarely eat it see more
Vegetables are a product of nature and are living things.. like cows are a product nature and are living things.... really... how can you be against eating one but not the other? Cows die, plants die, when you give plants affection they grow better when you give cows affection they grow better too. Their are tons of studies to back that up....
I know this will get deleted like all my posts....
I find it funny that everyone makes a big stink about see more
Now excuse me while I delete my account and trash your software on my review. And if you happen to hear about a really bad review of your software and community check it out.. and if I was the one see more