Choose empathy over apathy.

There comes a time when everyone should seriously empathise.
Wikipedia defines empathy as “the capacity to recognise feelings that are being experienced by another sentient or semi-sentient being”. Empathy is a prerequisite for experiencing compassion, and compassion is precisely what this world is most in need of. It's the crucial emotion required to help free the world from the thralls of depravity in which it finds itself ensnared

Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

Certain actions bring harm, other more wizened actions bring harmony.

Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.