Vegetarian Star

Russell Simmons

“Because of the first step in yoga, Ahimsa, non-harming. The greatest cause of human karma is abuse of the ten billion farm animals that exists at all times. And then also the greatest cause of global warming, [meat] and dairy uses more oil than anybody but the army. You go to war over meat because it is the second largest use of oil. It also drains our resources, like our water, more than anything.”

“I went to yoga because there were so many hot girls there and I started listening to the teaching. From there, everybody was vegan and they started talking about it. It was for compassionate reasons that I stopped eating animals, but soon enough you are surrounded by a bunch of vegans and nutritionists, and then you are surrounded by all of these likeminded people. In the science of yoga and in many scripture they talk a lot about the chakras, and you’ve taken care of the first chakra, the Muladhara chakra, so that you can take care of and serve the rest of the planet. People who are compassionate realize that they have to serve themselves in order to serve the world. So it becomes a nutrition thing as well as a compassion thing.”

—Russell Simmons, on how he got into veganism and yoga at same time.

Photo: Brett Weinstein/Creative Commons

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