Chinese Vegetarians Are A Danger To Public Health
THE best opening line of the day: a health warning at the Chinese Vegetarian Festival:
Doctors in Phuket, Thailand, are warning vegetarians at the annual Chinese Vegetarian Festival that piercing their faces with knives, axes, spades and beach umbrellas could expose them to health risks - Fox News
Chinese vegetarians are a menace:
The Phuket Public Health Office advises adherents to sterilize the instruments before inserting them into the skin and “take steps” to prevent viral and bacterial infection, the Phuket Gazette reports.
“Apart from the risks associated with sharp objects, we are also checking to ensure that proper hygiene is being maintained at food stalls by giving advice to vendors,” the health office told the newspaper. Samples of vegetarian food is inspected for safety, the health office reassures.
Why do it?
According to local legend, Ma Song or “entranced horses” possess the bodies of devotees and perform self-torture to absorb the evil from their host bodies to themselves. “Handlers” are assigned to entranced devotees to escort them around town with spears, poles and lanterns protruding from their skin, according to the festival’s Web site, PhuketVegetarian.com.
Celebrants keep a strictly vegetarian or vegan diet for part of all of the 10-day festival to avoid inflicting pain and suffering on any life form, with the exception of themselves.
When lettuces scream…
Posted: 6th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 7th, 2008 at 1:27 am
In the wild my dog would be looking for the oven and the fridge… and the ice-cream van (she’s been known to join the queue on her own and get served! - they think it’s so cute they don’t charge).
October 6th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
I think it works better if you have a Jewish mother
October 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I had an Israeli friend years ago whose mother said it could cure cancer - and to be honest - his tumours did shrink!
But then he hit the bottle again - and well - you know what livers are like! lol
Having read up on iguanas last night - I know enough to know that I’m not adopting one!
However - I know nothing about pandas apart from they are not very highly-sexed and eat a lot of bamboo.
But where in the wild would a panda find a chicken and a pan and a fire - all at the same time?
Where would it even find the fucking recipe?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Who knew?
I thought that only worked if you had a Jewish mother…
October 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
They have been feeding pandas chicken soup in China, they have become all stressed out and need something soothing, and chicken soup is regarded as medicine
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3143331/Pandas-given-chicken-soup-to-soothe-stress.html
October 6th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
This is as maybe! But they are a lot less fucking dangerous than some of the meat eating ones who are despicably cruel to animals and people in captivity.
In fact - it is safe to say that you are probably better off being a fucking panda than any other species including humans!
How much poison are they feeding their kids these days - not including their propagandist bollocks - that goes without saying!
Ay? Answer me that then!