Our message is simple:
Compassion is not a right exclusive to human beings.
Just as we humans prefer to experience loving kindness and compassion, so too do the animals we consume as food, abuse, and even kill for “sport.”
The Universal Compassion Foundation (UCF) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization whose mission is to bring awareness and engage in compassionate practice towards those suffering beings who cannot speak of their right to live in peace.
Our main focus as a foundation is to ease the suffering of those helpless animals who are slaughtered for meat, ritual sacrifice, the cruel sport of hunting, or are abused in farms and industries and wherever they may suffer. The long-range goals of UCF are global concerns, such as promoting world peace, interfaith harmony, protection and conservation of the environment, “the mother earth” giving a helping hand to destitute children in their education and any such programmes of necessary assistance, who would otherwise be left suffering great difficulties in their struggles to survive.
We undertake this mission from the inspiration of the Compassionate teachings of the Buddha Shakyamuni through H.H. The Dalai Lama, as well as our own experience from the way we live our lives. It is our hope that their blessings and inspiration will help fuel this movement to spread throughout the world, and to overcome whatever obstacles may arise on the noble path.
“Since all sentient beings are as equal to me as my only son, how can I approve my followers to eat the flesh of my son? Eating meat to me is out of the question. I have never approved, I am not, and I will never approve that – I have strictly condemned eating meat in every way.”
