I've been vegetarian for around 3 years after I discovered how badly we treat animals, and also by connecting meat and animals in my mind... Realising that the same pets that I adore are the steaks that I ate. But still, I went vegetarian because I could. I could manage to find time in my life to change my diet and to make sure I had no deficiency in nutrients... So don't be too hard on yourself mate, your situation is totally understandable! Actually I strongly disagree with people saying that anyone could become vegetarian if they wanted to, it takes a lot of thought, trial and error, time and obviously a lack of allergies... Saying that, anyone can fight for animal rights in their own way, being vegetarian is only one of the many tools we have...

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'm grateful that you say that (not OP). So many vegetarians/vegans are convinced anyone who isn't vegan hates animals, or is at least "worse" than them on some magical scale they came up with.

I fought for my state's free range chicken law, but I wouldn't fight for bans of consuming chicken or eggs. I would love a law that banned chick-killing (the practice of immediately killing all newborn chickens of the "wrong gender" when reselling chickens to farms or growing egg breeds). I'm sure they'd find a way around that. Despite that, I'll still eat chicken.