Take a butcher's: Vegan For a Day bus tours hosts James Persson (left) a former butcher, and chef Ginger Scott at Matcha Mylkbar in St Kilda. Credit:Simon Schluter

Just nine months ago, James Persson was working as a butcher, cutting up beef carcasses and packaging lamb chops at a Melbourne supermarket.

Today he is a committed vegan and has vowed to never eat meat again.

While most paths to veganism aren’t quite as dramatic as Mr Persson’s, the phrase ‘‘I’m going vegan’’ is ringing out in households around town.

To quell the panic the declaration often induces, next month he and business partner Ginger Scott will start hosting bus tours called Vegan For a Day.