I fuel my pathos into funding a local regenerative farm that I can visit and see the ecology. Sure, ordering food two weeks ahead of time is a headache, but I know where every dollar is going.

This is an Appeal to Futility fallacy, which can render any argument immobile. "Why vote, it doesn't matter anyway". "Why help the needy, my contribution won't fix the problem". "Why continue living, we're just gonna die anyway".

If everyone thinks along your lines, society and the world basically just falls to bits. If the world suddenly adopted my view, climate change is basically solved, the risk of zoonotic diseases (COVID, bird flu, swine flu etc) basically stops, the risk of treatment resistant antibiotics hugely drops, conscious feeling creatures aren't tortured and killed for pleasure.

The worst Monsanto vegies are absolutely more ethical than the best meat, for the planet, for your health and for the animal.

I am super confused by your comments. It is cheaper to be vegan. I'm on welfare benefits for one person and am able to afford being vegan plus afford food for my non-vegan SO. Your comment about vegan cheese that doesn't melt sounds like you haven't tried more different vegan cheeses; for example if you want vegan mac n cheese you would make a vegan cheese sauce, not throw in a block of vegan cheese from the store and lament how it doesn't melt. I have not needed dairy cheese for my meals, for burritos or burgers or anything like that and do not miss the taste or texture of dairy cheese. I also don't consider vegan ice cream inferior, honestly you sound anti-vegan. Maybe you are just venting in defense but this is pretty much the language I would expect from my carnist family members.

It sounds like you don't care about the morality of veganism (something I care very much about), that you did it more for the environment and once you felt inconvenienced you abandoned it. I do feel sad for you because not only is it cheaper to be vegan, but it can be delicious and you are not harming animals in order to do so. Do you still buy store eggs? I have a family member with about 7 hens and they still have to supplement with store eggs. The abuse cows go through for humans to have dairy (and meat obviously) is unacceptable to me. Yes, capitalism needs to be abolished, but in the meantime animals are dying by the millions every year.

It is very hard to get people to change, but I don't think we should just give up on it. A lot of people do not have open minds about veganism, no one I know IRL was cool about me being vegan. I live in a blue state btw. All I expected was people not to care but instead I had a lot of negative feedback by the people around me. Me being vegan was like an attack on them. I even had one friend recently tell me my chronic pain would worsen without meat and insisted that I needed it, it was disgusting on so many levels. I had been vegan long enough to confirm my pain did not change at that point. It's gotten to the point that I hate bringing it up. And I am tired of arguing with my SO over it, that could really be its own post lol. I really only feel safe talking about veganism online, but that's at least a first step.