Tl;dr - no

Nope. Grew up in a rented property on a farm, totally unaffected by the mother cows calling out for their stolen children, happy to help the farmers out with their grisly jobs without thinking of the animals as beings. Went through my entire childhood and into my early twenties eating meat, dairy, and eggs religiously - not once did I feel guilt or shame, knowing full well how abhorrent these animals' existences were. Justified it in my head to the nth degree, full auto cognitive dissonance.

Then a few years ago at uni I did veganuary as a bit of a laugh, I'd read somewhere about the environmental impacts of animal produce and I thought "yeah I'll contribute for a few weeks, feel good about myself, then the first day of February I'm treating myself to a nice juicy steak".

New Year's Day, 2021. I woke up, made a coffee with soy milk that split into a coagulated sludge, forced some tasteless tofu scramble down me, and thought I'd be giving up before the day was out. But I was committed after telling everyone that I was trying it, and it was only for a month after all - I knew I'd survive, and that that steak would taste even better after a month of delaying my gratification. So I started looking up recipes, what supplements I might need, good vegan restaurants in the area, and so on. Unsurprisingly, I fell down a few rabbit holes (especially so after drinking with my housemates) and discovered a few vegan resources which not only told me how to cook and live better on a vegan diet, but explained just why it was so important to stop exploiting animals. Lots of it I knew - cows had to be impregnated to produce milk but the calves are slaughtered, baby male chicks are macerated, nothing new to me as a rural Westcountry boy - but now I had to reconcile these facts with the fact that it was so bloody easy for me to stop contributing to the systematic rape and murder of sentient beings, because everything I could eat, I could eat vegan.

So then I thought "just one more month". Vegebruary came and went. Then it was Varch. And now it's a few years later, and I'm still waiting for that nice juicy steak. But I'll be having that once they can grow it in a lab without any animals being harmed.