Changing our personal habits

Anyone who wants to do something about the way we treat food-animals, is going to have to ignore what they’ve previously been taught about eating habits. They’ll retrain tastebuds, refuse advice from authorities with vested interests, and turn to those who’ve already gone vegan and remain in good health.
By not sponsoring the use of animals in the food and clothing industries we relieve ourselves of the guilt of the whole animal issue, which sits like a lead weight on the collective conscience. What we do to animals makes us feel like monsters. Any sensitive and well informed person must feel ashamed of the part we play and the cruel practices we condone. The way animals are slaughtered, the imprisonment of hens in tiny cages, the theft of newborn calves from dairy cows, the sow stall, the mutilations of cattle. The list of horrors goes on and on and each one reflects on the human consumer who supports abuse by buying animal produce. It is a sick habit, but perhaps we won’t talk about it because it throws up too many problems involving making too many changes, more than we think we are capable of. But there are, nevertheless, many people doing just that, who have established these changes in their lives and are now helping others to understand and carry out similar lifestyle and attitude changes.
They are reacting positively to this need to alter attitudes to animals. They want to show that humans are capable of the self discipline and good intention needed to change daily habits. That's what vegans are doing.