Charles Stahler is a co-founder and co-director of the Vegetarian Resource Group. When I became vegetarian, it never occurred to me to eat fish. It is fascinating how many people see fish differently from other animals. Interestingly, when we went "fishing" when young, my father always taught us to put the ... Read More

Yueyue Guo was a winner of the Vegetarian Journal's 2010 youth essay contest. It was the smell that got to me first. It was my first trip to a Chinatown at age eight, and I was standing right in front of the seafood counter, waiting for my mother to buy the ... Read More

THE LAST FISH (initially posted on Care2) When I was a child, I was taught that killing fish was supposed to be relaxing. It was a time to bond with family and friends; a game, or rather a sport, called “fishing”. Thankfully this lesson didn’t stick and even before I became ... Read More

I WAS A FISH KILLER I first fished at age five, with my brother Greg, who is one year younger. Each of us caught a perch out of a lake in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Fascinated, we watched the two perch swim around in a small bucket until  first one and then ... Read More

It is now glaringly clear to me that fish are conscious beings and I often take for granted that so many others don’t see it the same way. I grew up in north central Montana, in my family the activities of fishing and hunting were synonymous with enjoying the outdoors and ... Read More