Chapter 68 Canaries and Drosophila

When I went to the mine for interviews, I found that there was a canary cage hanging not far from the mine. I asked the miners and found out that the canary was used to detect gas. Because the canary is sensitive to gas, as long as there is a little gas, it will be restless and scream in panic, because its loud cry can remind people in the pit to pay attention. To prepare to escape. How many times has that beautiful, singing canary sacrificed its life to save the people in the mine?Standing under the cage, I thought so. Recently, on the TV news, I saw the Japanese police searching the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo. Each team carried a canary to detect poisonous gas. It is "symbiosis", living and growing together with us, but many people can't understand it.

Not only canaries, Taiwan's agricultural authorities have raised many fruit flies to detect pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables. Even today, when pesticide testing is very scientific, fruit flies are still the most convenient and economical.The most accurate detection method. So when we eat safe fruits and vegetables, we should thank a little fruit fly. All living beings in the world, regardless of size, shape, good or bad, have the right to live on the earth, and each has different functions, and should be respected by human beings. If we take the Buddhist point of view of "all beings are equal, all have Buddha nature" and "sentient and non-sentimental, the same kind of wisdom", our Buddha nature is basically the same as that of all living beings, but the shape is constantly changing. Those sentient and righteous "animals" " and the ruthless "human face" will change appearance in a certain time and space, but unfortunately, few people can think so deeply!