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Yoga And Vegetarianism: The Path To Greater Health And Happiness (2008)

by Sharon Gannon(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1601090218 (ISBN13: 9781601090218)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Mandala Publishing

review 1: Gannon makes some strong arguments in favor of a vegan lifestyle using Yogic texts (Patanjali). The tone is incredibly forceful, and everything is presented as black and white. I had trouble with the content about karma implying that there is balance in the world for past actions. "We must remember that all beings--including the animals [raised in factory farms:]--find themselves in their present situations due to past karmas (p. 109)." While I don't agree with all of Gannon's ideas, I support eating in a conscientious way that is in alignment with your spiritual beliefs.
review 2: Though the author has many good points about the unethical treatment of animals, I am not entirely convinced that consuming meat or dairy products is inherently wrong. I think the g... moreeneral practice of producing and consuming meat and dairy in this country is beyond evil, but there are degrees of consumption which are less evil, veganism being on the opposite end of the spectrum, with points in between being more or less evil. Hypocrisy was rampant in this book, with statements such as: yoga is a nonjudgmental practice, but people who consume meat and dairy cannot be yogis; a meat-eating environmentalist is a contradiction in terms. The matter isn't so black and white as she makes it. Though I wholeheartedly agree that the mistreatment of animals needs to end, we seem to disagree about what it is that constitutes said mistreatment. I would argue that a person who purchases only local, organic, and free-range meat, dairy, and eggs is acting more ethically than a vegan who purchases tomatoes from California, oranges from Florida, and apples from South America, with no sense of the labor and environmental destruction that goes into producing such plants. I certainly disagree with the notion that a person who eats meat cannot be a yogi or an environmentalist. I think it's easier to say what's wrong than what's right. Factory farming is wrong, but there are multiple ways of righting that wrong. A vegan diet is great for some, but not for everyone. Overall, a very thought-provoking piece on yoga and ethics. less

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