On April 14th this year David Matthews set off on a 6,000 mile walk that will take two years to complete. When I join David on video chat he is sitting on a bench by the sea, just west of Glasgow, some 1,600 miles into his epic adventure and is reassuringly modest as he talks about his vegan journey so far.
“Years ago, I used to demonstrate outside McDonald’s in Rotherham and Doncaster. The ‘What’s Wrong With McDonald’s?’ campaign was run by a local group and I would go out into the cities and hand out the leaflets. There were very few vegans in our area so I was usually alone and I have continued to campaign like this for years.”