How can one practice vegetarianism in the coastal regions

From: Ladusingh
How people from coastal region can follow vegeterianism where only fish / sea food is available?

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question by laddu singh how people from coastal region can follow vegetarianism when only fish or seafood is available answer it is not entirely accurate to say that fish and the only things that are available in the coastal region in fact the coastal region is often a highly fertile region where the rivers are going to meet the tributaries at the ocean and a wide variety of vegetation can grow there it may not be as wide as say in more fertile areas but other crops can also be cultivated and may be because of the relatively easy availability of seafood the temptation might be there to continue with that but at a deeper level we have to understand that ultimately all of us are born in a particular situation by the past karma of our previous lives so the past karma puts us in a situation which may sometimes test some of us more and some of us less so in such a situation we need to sometimes exert ourselves a little bit more so that we can make the right choices the scriptures do tell us that Bhagavatam tells us in the first canto that meat eating is one of the pillars of sinful life and that needs to be given up if we want to make a tangible spiritual advancement so some people may be born in families where right from their childhood they have been eating meat always and they may start eating meat and later on for them to give up meat eating may not be so easy but then just as they have to recognize that my birth in a particular familial environment where meat eating was prevalent was because of certain karma which I had done in the past so just as our family is one level of environment the physical topography and the geographical location where we are born is also one type of environment in which we are placed by our own karma so we need to exert ourselves a little bit more if we want to make the right choices and if that extra exertion is required that indicates that is required even if it is at initially seems to be too much we will be ready to do that for the sake of elevating and liberating our