Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets. Roughly one-third of what is dragged in is not profitable fish, but other sea animals, including turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, and seabirds. These beings are referred to by the fishing industry as "by-catch." Severely traumatized and wounded, these animals are subsequently thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying.

Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species.

The practice of yoga allows us to become more conscious of our own physical existence and how significant we really are.

If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.

What you eat should not just be "good for you" but it should contribute to your happiness; it should make you a happier person.

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

Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now.