Vegans from United Kingdom

I have been vegan for 11 years now and was vegetarian for about 18 years before that. My aunt had turned vegan about a year before and wanted to meet up before we moved to Wales. She suggested we meet at the Viva Roadshow. I attended a talk on nutrition and realized that my diet …read more

This summer I celebrate 3 years of being a vegan and I only wish I had started younger! There were several roads that all converged at the same time for me that led to my decision to go from vegetarian to vegan- the death of my father to heart attack, studying nutrition (which educated me …read more

Hey guys,I’m Sasa from the UK.I’ve been vegan for 6mths now and my life and health has improved tenfold.I’ve been an animal rescuer for over 20yrs now and logically you’d think I’d have gone vegan years ago right?! Wrong! I was vegetarian but it hadn’t even -occurred to me that farm animals were also suffering …read more

Hi everyone, I’m Chris! I’m 31 years and I come from Stockport in England…. home of Stockport County Football Club, Stockport Hat Museum and the pigeons that reside outside of Greggs bakery! Why Vegan? The easy answer is, why not?! But the serious answer is, after 30 years of battling with depression and researching the …read more

Hi I’m Nilam and this is my sister Sarita on the right, we were both raised vegetarian but this year we went Vegan. I first went vegan about 10 years ago after reading a book called Skinny bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin but slowly started eating bits and pieces of dairy like cheese …read more

Hello! I’m @gisele.mar and @organic_raw_vegan. My vegan story started from childhood. My family and I lived in a village where all our neighbours kept chickens, geese, cows and we often saw how these animals were killed. But for some reason I always felt sad for the fish. At the age of 15, I accidentally met …read more

This is a picture of me and my daughter Mia. When I was 15 my dad and I became a veggie. I was veggie for 6 years and for some reason I went back to eating meat but my dad didn’t. Back then there weren’t many choices and when young and out with friends there …read more

So after 27 years of using animals for food and clothing I went vegan. Often people mention about going cold turkey…for me that wasn’t the case; I’d stopped overnight but I didn’t have any unpleasant experience from putting a abrupt stop too my substance dependence with animal products…nor did I have any feeling of joy …read more

I was a vegetarian from 19 after realising and making the fully connection of someone having to die for me. This felt deeply wrong and mad the change the winter of that year. I was never aware of the cruelty with hen eggs as with what I know now, same with cow milk too. Off …read more

It started when I was 9 years old, on holiday in Florida in the USA. I can’t remember exactly what triggered it maybe a conservation about where meat came from. But I decided in that moment that I would become a vegetarian and never eat meat again, it was just like something had clicked in …read more