Cow protection movement in meat. Indian Buddhist texts encourage a plant-based diet. Amritdhari Sikhs, or those baptized with the "Amrit", have been strict vegetarians, abstaining from all eggs and meat, including cattle meat. Sikhs who eat meat seek the Jhatka method of producing meat believing it to cause less suffering to the animal. Both initiated and uninitiated Sikhs are strictly prohibited from eating meat from animals slaughtered by halal method, known as Kutha meat, where the animal is killed by exsanguination (via throat-cutting). According to Eleanor Nesbitt, the general issue of vegetarianism versus non-vegetarianism is controversial within Sikhism, and contemporary Sikhs disagree. The
Dream House for Medically Fragile Children returning them to their families, placing them in foster homes and/or obtaining adoption would be possible. In the fall of 2001, Laura O. Moore founded the organization as The Dream House for Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to moving medically fragile children out of institutions and to educate these children's families, caregivers, and communities about issues that affect them. Moore was trained as a pediatric intensive care nurse. In December 2002 the organization was renamed the Dream House For Medically Fragile Children. Laura Moore and her husband took in Katie as a foster child in 2004. The organization expanded in