it's kind of ironic that after 4yrs of being vegan it's the month of veganuary i will no long be vegan, i'm done with it ..
I'm not too fussed about the vegan thing myself tbh... I think we do need to drastically cut our meat consumption though. Just minimising the amount of meat you eat can achieve the same benefits.
I guess some days I have eaten a completely vegan set of meals, most days though will either be vegetarian or will involve some fish. When I eat meat now it tends to be poultry, I'd very rarely eat processed red meat these days (I did have a McDonalds a few weeks ago - it was a novelty via uber eats). I will have the occasional steak too or home made beer burger - though I think the last steak I has was sometime last year. I'll have a haggis on burns night too (though missed it this year). I'm sure at some point I'll have a full English breakfast if staying at a hotel or something but it isn't the sort of thing I'd cook at home these days.
Plenty of animals get killed farming crops etc... some vegans still wear leather shoes or buy handbags made from leather etc... The self righteous aspect of it always seems flawed - its sort of a denial of reality and when they get into arguments about bees and whether Vegans should eat honey or whether you can keep bees ethically and make vegan honey etc.. then it really has jumped the shark. We inevitably kill animals whether directly or indirectly, that isn't going to change, cutting down a tree does that yet I suspect vegans arguing about stealing the labour of honey bees haven't avoided all wood in their houses, despite each tree felled containing tens of thousands of bugs.
I'm fully behind trying to minimise animal suffering, I buy free range eggs, free range chicken etc.. and I don't really see fish or prawns etc.. as being on the same level as say pigs, cows etc.. I'd not have an issue with regulations around the slaughter of animals becoming even stricter and meat having to become even more expensive.
In the past meat has been an extravagance, I think edging back to a situation like that could be good. These animals have been bred for meat, if they can be well looked after then slaughtered in the quickest and painless way possible then that's fine with me. I suspect that if meat consumption is reduced over time then it will be easier to get tighter and tighter regulations passed re: meat and the environmental impact can be massively reduced too.