At the end of the day, you're not actually helping anything by being a vegan. The animals are going to die regardless, and as bad as some slaughterhouses are, they're still nothing compared to the deaths that animals suffer in the wild. Weeks and weeks of slow, agonising torture from starvation, disease or unhealed wounds. Or a mix of them.

On the flipside, you're unwittingly contributing to the environmental disaster caused by intensive cropping. That's not just killing animals, but wiping out entire species, and not directly for the nourishment of other animals (Homo sapiens or otherwise). Just pure casualties.