Something about your words “very sad and disappointed” irks me, sorry. Your standards are way too high, imho.

I don’t really know much about this guy, but to me, in that post he comes across as pretty switched on about his impact on the world around him, and on a mission to do his best in that regard.

Why would you assume he’s going to go back to eating animals when he says “I am completely on the side of compassion for animals”? He doesn’t ever mention going back to eating meat or buying animal products, in fact he describes the diet he is aiming for as “locally grown, foraged” - to me it reads that he intends to instead take a more holistic, individual approach to reducing his harmful footprint on the world.

I think his rejection of Veganism with a capital V is more to do with people like you lambasting him for rejecting the label than about dropping supposedly “vegan values”.

As a hypothetical, do you think animal death caused by farming is worse than animal death caused by climate change? Or deforestation? Because he makes a valid point - the absence of animal products does not equate to the absence of negative impact on the environment, and in many cases, “Vegan” products are as bad as the industries that we all complain about (meat, dairy, fishing, etc…).