Lifestyle and Empathetical Values Among Vegans

In India, there are countless different diets, and lifestyles, revolving around food choices. What we choose to eat, what lifestyle we choose to follow can have a great impact on our physical and mental health, our relationship with others and the society. Likewise, it also indicates how much we care about fellow non-human animals and how our lifestyle is affecting them and our surroundings. Veganism is a growing movement which is considered as a crueltyfree lifestyle, which revolves around the ethics, moral and empathy of humans towards other living beings. The present study is aimed at studying the Lifestyle and Empathetical values among Vegans. The study is exploratory in nature and adapts concurrent triangulation mixed research design. The participants of the study include 30 Vegetarians to Vegans and 30 Non-Vegetarians to Vegans. The semi-structured interview was conducted to get a deeper insight into the Lifestyle and Empathetical values among Vegans, developed by the researcher (2019). The inductive thematic analysis method was employed to analyse the qualitative data obtained, resulted in the emergence of various themes underlying meaning among both the samples that were more or similar had a partial difference as a whole, which were discussed and compared. The main findings indicated that there is a major increase in the physical and mental health of the participants after becoming Vegans. There exists a sense of empathetical and moral alignment with their action, and a sense of remorse from past actions.