We ourselves can never be free if we rob others of their freedom.

Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.

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

Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.

Choosing to be kind rather than to be cruel benefits everyone.

Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.

Through the practice of yoga, you come to feel confident and develop a feeling of wholeness and completeness; you are not likely to feel deprived or 'less than.' People steal because they feel deprived. They try to make up for their deficits by depriving others.