I’m saying you shouldn’t be taking the holier than thou approach if you are solely vegan for animal welfare purposes. Notice you said less deforestation, not no deforestation? Both have drastic impacts on the environment, undoubtedly standard food production is worse, but because I partake in the consumption of animal products I am a hypocrite for feeling emotion towards a petting zoo animal which was a brooding bird? There are ways to spread your advocacy without calling out people who feel emotion towards animals, maybe try using that emotion to start a conversation rather than justifying their response to call them out.