To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

To be political actually means to care about your community.

Today "aged" foods like sauerkraut, miso, and tempeh are fermented in hygienically sanitized stainless-steel vats to assure cleanliness, so we can no longer be sure they will provide us with the B12 we need. Vegans should not mess around with this issue.

If it were possible to live without causing harm to any living being at all, then indeed we might well choose not to eat carrots or other vegetables. But that is not possible - merely by being alive, we necessarily cause harm to many, many beings: we step on them inadvertently, we breathe them in without noticing, we kill them when we brush our teeth or wash our bodies, etc.

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.