Vegan ACT Committee

It took way too long for me to come round to Veganism! In 2012 I finally clicked after being vegetarian on and off since I was 14- and I haven’t looked back since. I was lucky then to have the opportunity to live on an animal sanctuary for the next 2 years, learning about and getting to know animals whom we call livestock- realising their individual, sensitive and hilarious personalities. For me having that contact with them and caring for them brought home all the realities of animal agriculture and the real suffering animals go through because of it. It’s …

I committed to veganism in January 2014 alongside my partner Gareth, after a harrowing period of discovery concerning the animal product industry. For the last few years we had been attempting to eliminate products sold by unethical companies from our shopping list with the help of the Shop Ethical guide (a very enlightening publication/app). One fateful day we read about the short, horrific lives of bobby calves, and probably a week later our plates were free from animal products, after more probing into the world of animals who are considered commodities. Looking back it’s clear that the path we were choosing was leading to veganism, …