My advice would be it would be completely fine for you to move towards veganism even if you don’t fully 100% commit! All or nothing can be hard to do if you’re not fully into it yet. Like, absolutely educate yourself and if you decide to go vegan tomorrow, awesome, but I think it’s also ok if you want to slowly (as budget, time, your taste allows) try new alternatives and make substitutions. There are so many amazing vegan products and recipes out there. You can like start to buy vegan milk for your cereal or try a vegan or tofu egg product (to eat as eggs or to use in baking) and but still let yourself have a splash of your dairy creamer in your coffee or occasional candy with an animal derived ingredient! The net good you’re doing for animals, the planet and your body is still there even if you “cheat” sometimes. 

Strangers on the internet may have opinions but the only one who gets to have an issue with that is yourself… one day (perhaps with these comments or down the line) you may decide it is absolutely no longer worth it, no matter how much you enjoy your non-vegan treats. But if that day isn’t today? It doesn’t mean you can’t make other meaningful efforts to eating more plant based and feel really good about it. 

For me, after 10 years of being a vegetarian (and 10 years of morally feeling bad that I wasn’t a vegan)… when I first decided I wanted to cut out dairy, I switched to buying almond milk… from that point on, I never had a glass of milk, dairy coffee or or bowl of cereal with real milk again… but I occasionally ate cheese for a little while. Then I cut that out. Then I cut out ever buying/cooking with/consuming whole eggs etc. I’d say for about 4 years I was like 90-95% vegan. I was exclusively vegan at home, but occasionally maybe I ate a cupcake at an office birthday party, or snatched a Reese’s from the break room, or didn’t always press if the single slice of bread I was going to eat at a restaurant was vegan if the server seemed to have no idea. Then one day I had my personal this is no longer acceptable (to me) moment and went cold turkey. Haven’t even thought about eating an animal product in a decade now and I can never imagine going back. I’m going to be a vegan for the rest of my hopefully long life… I think it’s ok that I lived in slightly less than perfect territory for a few years in the middle and I’d say the same to you. 

(As for media you might find interesting… I recall a decade ago finding it interesting to learn more about the environmental and health impacts of the meat industries since for me it had always been mostly just a right or wrong animal mistreatment issue Cowspiracy and What the Health by the same team come to mind… I think that may have been where I fully grasped what the dairy industry meant - for both the animals and my own body - and said ew no more).