Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.

Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock.

In fact, we are designed anatomically to be vegetarians.

The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.

The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.