This buffalo has changed the life of these butchers - heart-rending news story from China
人性的光輝面... The Bright Side of Human Nature ...
悲傷的水牛停步不前，驚恐流淚。The buffalo standing still, sad and frightened to tears
【人民報消息】不管人相信不相信，這件事發生了，就在香港。 據《世界新聞週刊》報導，一群工人牽著一頭水牛走進一家包裝廠內，準備將它宰殺做成牛排和燉牛肉。當他們接近屠宰房門口時，那頭悲傷的水牛突然停步不前，兩隻前腳往前跪下，眼淚也跟著撲簌簌地流了下來。那頭水牛還沒有進屠宰房，它是怎麼知道自己將要被宰殺的？這一點比人還靈。
「當我看到這種被人們認為是愚笨的動物，竟然在哭泣， 以及看到它那充滿恐懼和悲哀的雙眼時，我忍不住地發起抖來。」一位受到極度震撼的屠夫 Shiu Tat-Nin回憶說。「我趕緊叫其他人過來看，他們也和我一樣地訝異！ 我們不住地推拉著那頭水牛，可是它卻一動也不動，只是坐在那邊不斷地哭泣。」
一位香港的包裝廠老闆Billy Fong說，「人類一直以為動物是不會像人一樣哭泣，可是那頭水牛真的像個嬰孩一樣地啜泣著！」當時至少有十幾個強壯魁梧的男士在場，他們的心被哭軟了，負責宰殺的那些男孩內心更受到觸動，眼淚也不禁奪眶而出。其他的屠宰工人聞訊也都跑過來圍觀這頭哭泣下跪的水牛，現場擠得水洩不通，都被眼前的景象給震住了，其中有三個人更是當場就呆了。他們說，以後宰殺其它動物時，將永遠不會忘掉這頭淚流滿面的水牛。到了牛也哭、人也哭的份兒上，大家心裏都很清楚，沒有一個人忍心下得了手殺它。接下來面對的問題是：如何善後。
最後他們決定大家一起出錢買下這哭泣的水牛，並且送到一間佛寺，交給那些會愛護它的出家人，好讓它可以安心的度過這一輩子。決定做出後，神奇的事又發生了：「當我們向這只水牛保證不會殺它時，它才肯移動，然後起身緊緊跟隨著我們。」牛是如何聽懂人的話的？Shiu說：「不管你們相信不相信，這是千真萬確的事情，雖然聽起來確實是不可思議。」毫無疑義，這頭水牛改變了這些屠宰工的一生。
http://renminbao.com/rmb/articles/2011/4/16/54517b.html (accessed July 28, 2011)
2011年4月16日 星期六人性的光輝面...The Bright Side of Human Nature...主旨： 這頭水牛改變了這些屠宰工的一生This buffalo has changed the lives of these butchers
The Buffalo standing still, sad and frightened to tears
According to the news release from China’s People’s News, whether people believe it or not, this incident actually happened in Hong Kong. The Weekly World News reported that a group of workers were bringing a water buffalo into a packaging factory, ready to slaughter it to make steak and beef stew.
When they approached the front door of the slaughterhouse, the sorrowful buffalo suddenly stood still, refusing to move forward, kneeling on its two front knees, and with tears streaming from its eyes. How could the buffalo have already been aware that it was going to be slaughtered, before entering the slaughterhouse? This shows that it was even more alert than many a person. "When I saw what is believed to be a stupid animal actually crying, and when I noticed that its eyes were full of fear and sadness, I could not help but shiver."
Extremely shocked by this, butcher Shiu Tat-Nin recalled: "I quickly called other people to come see, and they were as surprised as I was! We pushed and pulled the water buffalo, but it would not move; it just sat there crying constantly." Billy Fong, the boss of the Hong Kong packaging plant said, "Mankind has always thought that animals are not like people who can cry, but this buffalo is really sobbing like a baby!" At that time there were at least a dozen strong, burly men present, but their hearts were softened by the buffalo's crying, and those who were responsible for killing water buffaloes were even more touched by this, tears welling out of their eyes.
Buffalo weeping non-stop
When workers from other slaughterhouses heard the news, they also ran to the crying and kneeling buffalo, and the site was soon crowded with people who were astonished at what they saw. Three of them were so shocked that they said that from now on, even when they slaughter other kinds of animals, they will never forget that buffalo’s tears.
At the point when a buffalo is crying and people are crying as well, we can all be sure that none of them will kill the buffalo now. Then the question was how to take care of this matter. Finally, they decided to buy the water buffalo with cash, and then they sent it to a Buddhist temple, for the monastic to take good care of it, so that it could be assured of living out its life peacefully.
When this decision was made, an amazing thing happened again: "When there was an assurance that the buffalo would not be killed, it finally agreed to move, got up, and it’s here with us." How could a water buffalo underst and human words? Shiu said: "Whether you believe it or not, this is really true, although it sounds really incredible." Undoubtedly, this buffalo has changed the lives of these butchers.
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