Self development via compassion

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One of the main reasons people become vegan is to further their own self-development. When we do eventually decide to 'go vegan', we automatically become more sensitized to the plight of farm animals. By developing empathy for them, we get closer to the trauma they experience. In this violent world, most of us want to know how to become less violent, less selfish and more healthy on all levels, indeed to become an all-round, better type of person. The obvious start is to go vegan.

If, to some extent, ‘we are what we eat’ then, more so, ‘we are what we boycott’. We make our most sincere statement of intent in what we deny ourselves, becoming more empathic by what we avoid eating or wearing when it happens to be animal-based. By boycotting products so closely associated with cruelty, we make a most powerful statement concerning our ethical priorities.