food for thought...

"what you say and what you save".

Its a line from a song, so Priscilla says. But I'm typically lazy to find out what it means in the context of the song. But in light of what we spoke about at lunch, it makes sense.

I eat meat, despite knowing the cruelty inflicted on the battery chicken, the tortured pig etc. I eat shark's fin, despite knowing the sheer cruelty of castrating live sharks of their fin.

I know these things, and I feel for these things. But what do I do about it? Do I go out there and save these creatures? Worse, I seem to be contributing to this cruelty. Yet how come this guilt is not enough to overcome me, and inspire me into action? Am I heartless?

I don't know. Maybe some might agree to the heartless bit. But it just doesn't sit comfortably with me that I live with this contradiction, amongst others.

"what you say and what you save".

Uncle T