Self development via compassion

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One of the main reasons people become vegetarian is to start the process of self-development, to become more sensitized to their surroundings and the plight of farm animals, and most of all to develop empathy in order to get closer to the trauma inflicted on ‘food’ animals . 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. By what we avoid eating or wearing, especially if it is animal-based indicates how empathic we are. By boycotting products so closely associated with cruelty we make a most powerful statement concerning our ethical priorities.