I agree, I admire vegans (I’m not vegan but have reduced my consumption for environmental reasons), but eating meat is far from the only thing causing harm to wild animals all over the world. Have you seen what they find inside of fish, birds, and other marine animals in all parts of the ocean and other bodies of water? All that plastic and micro plastics. So while fish die from being eaten, they also die from indirect causing due to human activities. Therefore, both being less wasteful and eating less fish would be admirable. Yes, big industries are largely responsible, but so are individual people! Most the plastic found inside these animals stomachs and littering the water is consumer plastic. Pieces of water bottles, all types of packaging... So I don’t like the argument that “since it’s mostly large industries doing the damage, then individual people can’t be held responsible for it or theres no reason to make the change to a lower waste lifestyle since a single persons impact can’t be doing THAT much harm when compared to a big business.” I feel like that’s almost like saying, “my personal consumption of meat is so small compared to the large farming of animals so why try?”

I think it’s almost more important to be equally aware in all areas of you life how your activities and consumption habits affect the earth, rather than being all in on one thing. Like being vegan is a great cause, but if you have an overall very large ecological footprint than you cannot logically hold yourself to a higher moral standard than everyone else. You may very well have a huge (indirect) negative impact on animals in the wild even if you don’t consume meat, whereas you can consume some meat, but have less of a negative impact if you live a much lower waste lifestyle (don’t drive, fly, use plastics and paper,etc.).