<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Life  of  ONION]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/img_5287-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="1939" data-permalink="https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/life-of-onion/img_5287-1/" data-orig-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/img_5287-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1541,1600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1288465764&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;52&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_5287-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/img_5287-1.jpg?w=289" data-large-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/img_5287-1.jpg?w=986" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1939" title="IMG_5287-1" src="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/img_5287-1.jpg?w=288&#038;h=300" alt="" width="288" height="300" srcset="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/img_5287-1.jpg?w=288&amp;h=300 288w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/img_5287-1.jpg?w=576&amp;h=598 576w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/img_5287-1.jpg?w=144&amp;h=150 144w" sizes="(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px" /></a>I have used a half of this onion few days ago and kept</p>
<p>the rest wrapped in cling-film, left in the fridge.</p>
<p>Then, when I try to use for cooking, the onion has already</p>
<p>started to shoot. <span style="color:#ff0000;"> &#8212;&#8212; <strong>m m m ? ? ?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Should I kill her, boiled alive and eat ?</strong></span></p>
<p>When an organization of conscientious &#8221; Green Piece &#8221;</p>
<p>appealed the conservation of endangered species,</p>
<p>there were thousand of obviously endangered species</p>
<p>in the world, such as White Rhinoceros or Tasmanian Devil</p>
<p>which was really facing real danger of extinction. &#8212;&#8212; though,</p>
<p>Tasmanian Devil looks really like a devil, far from photogenic.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; <strong> So, Seal  was selected for a campaign idle. They looks so cute !</strong></span></p>
<p>Thus able to sell the posters in millions and created huge profit.  Green Peace&#8217;s tactics, just exploit the emotion</p>
<p>was a huge success.  The people mobilized and protested, less than half of them did read the factual figure.</p>
<p>Yet still under the pressure of the campaign,  British and Canadian Government banned  Seal hunting which</p>
<p>cost &#8220;Green Peace&#8221; nothing.  Only the hunter lost their Job.  But the trouble is, those hunter was not the</p>
<p>sports hunter but the native Inuit,  who has been traditionally hunting and eating, surviving on Seal hunting.</p>
<p>And those native people were forced to abandon their way of life and to buy frozen beef from a super market.</p>
<p>Exactly the same way to convert the barbaric natives into &#8220;civilized&#8221; people &#8212; done by the Conquistador,</p>
<p>but this time not by the Christianity but the another ideology or the pretext of so-called  Animal right.</p>
<p>Still this is the main purpose of the campaign, eye-catching, appearing,  BUT  for quick-money soft target.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Now, only  four  Northern White Rhino were left in the whole world.  Literally one stop before total extinction.</p>
<p>What pushed them to face such situation ? &#8212; Its their horn.  Rhino horn is the most prestigious ornament to</p>
<p>make a handle for the Arabic ceremonial dagger, and most sought after Chinese medicine.(after Tiger bone)</p>
<p>As the price of one horn is such high, hence able to make so much profit, now the poacher, dealer,</p>
<p>the gang network is even using their own helicopter to chase the Rhino.</p>
<p>Though, unlike poor Inuit hunter,  Arabic or Chinese dealers, their gang networks are very difficult to</p>
<p>deal, even dangerous &#8212;&#8211; any obstacle for their lucrative business could be even killed.  Its mean for</p>
<p>the conservationist,  it is a bad business. &#8212;&#8211; <span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Still, the front line conservationists who is acting almost</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>their own, with their own money are doing incredibly courageous work.</strong></span></p>
<p>But, big organization is for money &#8212;&#8211; the matter is &#8220;Money rising potential of the topics&#8221; not the seriousness,</p>
<p>or a plight of the last remaining few animals.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;-</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>So, the value of each life is not the same at all.</strong></span> We are drawing very convenient line between each cases.</p>
<p>And we are changing our own stance / principle case by case.  The same person, happen to be a</p>
<p>farther of a baby boy, pay so much attention to the welfare of the baby, and happen to be an active</p>
<p>member of an animal conservationists group, talking about the preservation of such as Wheal  though</p>
<p>putting blind eyes to the Wheal hunting by the fisherman in the Faroe Island, yet campaigning against</p>
<p>the Japanese hunting.  As he needs to rise the fund in the western society, it is easier to bash Japanese.</p>
<p>People putting blind eyes to such as Korean, Chinese are eating the Dog, other than making a joke.</p>
<p>During the Hindu Diwali Festival, many Awls are sacrificed as the offering to their God, (how many Awl left in</p>
<p>this country ?) though nobody ever talked about it. ( the pitfall of cultural / religious alienation / don&#8217;t touch)</p>
<p>Even a human life, before 20 weeks of pregnancy, foetus is not regarded to be a human, hence it will be</p>
<p>lawful to operate an abortion.  Yet still, if the pregnant woman was killed, even if it was only few weeks in</p>
<p>pregnancy, the Court see it as a double murder.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;- So, we are having double, treble, multiple standards.  We are the hypocrite in reality.  Therefore,</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t pretend to have a Higher Moral Ground.     Don&#8217;t preach others, but just do your best.</p>
<p>And never forget, we are in the system of hideous exploitation of other life, which we never able to justify</p>
<p>or wash off the blood stained hand.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;- <span style="color:#008000;"><strong>After few minutes dithering, I chopped poor onion and made a noodle soup for me to survive.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>With thanks to the life of onion, not mention the hundreds of wheat grain who has been ground </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>alive and made to be the noodle.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>___/\___</strong></span></p>
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