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>never been vegan before
There is a cost to being vegan that doesn't justify the switch.
As an Example, vegans still eat plants grown on fields in which mice and insects must be exterminated. In order to totally cause no harm to animals, you must eat only roadkill and eat out of trashcans, as this food has already been created and at this point there's nothing we can do to save the animals that have died in this process.
Now if a man spends all his day digging through the trash and cooking roadkill, when he could have spent that time advocating a vegetarian diet, then in the end more animals die. You see how that works? We are in a transition period, in time we will develop artificial meat and a more vegetarian society and eventually become completely vegan.
Much in the same way our current power sources are non-renewable, we must burn these non-renewable resources in order to create a fully renewable energy economy.