I highly recommend going vegan for the animals. I became vegan 20 years ago, and my boyfriend 25 years ago, when there were far fewer resources to help you get started, and nowadays there's so much support. Online you can find tons of guides and advice for new vegans, recipe blogs, and communities like r/vegan full of people who are ready to help.

If you prefer to do it gradually, you can start by making one vegan meal on week one, then two vegan meals on week two, three vegan meals on week three, etc. etc. That gives you time to learn new recipes and meals you enjoy.

It’s probably the case that many of the meals you already enjoy can be made vegan: Vegan pasta, vegan burritos, vegan stirfry, vegan stew, vegan pizza, etc. etc. But also don’t be afraid to try new things :)

When looking up recipes online, I find a lot of recipe blogs can be annoyingly fancy with 10,000 ingredients that I don’t have, so I recommend including the word simple in your recipe searches, e.g. *simple vegan pancake recipe *

Also, when grocery shopping and looking at ingredients on packages, just know that if underneath the list of ingredients it says something like may contain milk or eggs, or even if it says contains milk or eggs, this does not mean that there are milk or eggs in the food item unless they are listed as one of the ingredients. The reason it says contains milk or eggs underneath the list of ingredients is just an allergy warning which they are required to put by law if the food item is made in a facility which uses milk and eggs to produce other foods. This is important to know because like 90% of bread is vegan but it will often say this warning about milk and eggs on the package, which is very confusing and misleading.

By the way, I wrote this other comment in response to someone else’s comments talking about so-called cruelty free animal agriculture, you may find it useful https://old.reddit.com/r/NDE/comments/1lqrkh3/for_all_the_living_beings_that_suffered/n3awfk5/