When I was a young boy, I saw how a butcher slaughtered pigs

He used drums filled with water

Pigs in basket cages were then dumped heads down into the drums

The pigs would struggle making a lot of sound and then drowned

He would then lift up the dead pigs and started chopping

Nowadays butchers use sharp knives

Thrust and stab directly into the throat of the pig

The pig will cry, struggle and then die

One day while having a drink at an Indian stall at the roadside

About 12 metres away was a chicken seller with many chickens in his cage

The chicken seller was about 10 feet away from his cages

Then an Indian man came and was seen talking to the chicken seller

I could see the chickens started to jump with fright, even though 10 feet away

The chicken seller then walked towards the cage and picked up a chicken

Cut the frightened chicken at the throat and dumped it into a machine

Within a few seconds a cleaned chicken without feathers was done

The fear shown by the chickens was very obvious

Even though the seller was 10 feet away, the chickens seemed to know their destiny

Recently in Southern Vietnam, 60,000 chickens were killed

Tens of thousands of chickens were quickly sold to traders by desperate farmers

The highly contagious bird flu caused by a mystery virus was suspected

Then there was a mad cow disease in USA causing many countries to stop importing

The beef from USA, but the beef sellers assured quality control at their eatery outlets

There is a disease called psoriasis, the Chinese called it ‘Cow Skin Disease’

Because the reddish skin appears like cow skin, rough and unsightly looking

People who take beef or involve in beef business may get it

And the recent earth quake in Bam, Iran where 30,000 people perished in the rubbles

It was reported that 25% of Bam’s population were opium addicts

And it is a transit point for opium trades between Afghanistan and Europe  

They seem to be connected with meat and opium

The report by a Muslim in the paper about Iran citing God’s punishment

About the meat eating, JiGong said, ‘Back to those you must repay’

In 1976 when AIDS first appeared in the papers, while I was studying

My student housemates spoke about AIDS and I instantly replied

It was God’s punishment but it drew laughter from them

The mystery virus can be so small that no medicine can fight them

In this white period there are 81 disasters

In the red period there were 18 disasters

In the green period there were 9 disasters

The total of 9, 18 and 81 is 108 disasters

A high monk wears a necklace of 108 small beads and 3 big beads

Symbolizes the 3 periods and 108 disasters, according to JiGong

The mystery virus is one of the disasters

The worst are fire from the sky and ‘Geng Feng’, the deadly wind.