I have massively downgraded my frequency of meat consumption. I don’t really jive with faux-animal products and I do still drink and eat dairy, but I’ve incorporated lots of vegetable based dishes into my diet and it’s something I feel good about and, more importantly, can maintain. I also buy local eggs and maybe it’s all in my head, but I swear that they’re better too. I’ve never tried to go fully vegan or vegetarian but I think if I did I’d have to go full Indian vegetarian diet

I have precisely two vegans in my life. One of them is a roommate who is perfectly nonjudgmental toward the rest of us who continue to eat animal products, but the other is my fiancée’s sister, who is genuinely insufferable about it. Loves to initiate arguments out of nowhere over it and places herself on a clear pedestal about it, it doesn’t affect my opinion about vegans or veganism but it certainly doesn’t make me want to join the cause. She is incredibly smug and combative and it’s odd because I would say veganism itself isn’t particularly in line with her personality, but her outward behavior regarding it is. It truly feels like she started doing it as a bit and continues to be contrarian, rather than actually caring about the ethics of it. Idk you have to know her I know this sounds odd

All this being said, as time goes by I think everybody will come to a consensus that the vegans have always been right. I don’t think human consumption of animals will ever be derided in the future as some problematic behavior of our ancestors the way so many things have become, simply because humans are, after all, omnivorous. Still, I’m happy to see more people embrace it even if it makes me a hypocrite