“I went vegan in early 2017 after being vegetarian for almost all my life due to being raised by vegetarian parents. I have always cared deeply for the animals and the environment and thought that by being vegetarian I was doing enough. But when one of my friends became vegan I began to look into it.
“For a while I kept it in the back of my mind, but later I remembered her mentioning someone called ‘Gary Yourofsky’ and decided to google him. I watched his “Best Speech Ever” on YouTube and suddenly I was plunged into the grim reality of what I was supporting when I bought animal products. I was so shocked and felt so guilty that I knew I could never support that industry ever again. From that point on I was vegan and very soon afterwards I went into activism.