veganism is a symptom of having experienced or witnessed compassionate parenting sufficiently to cling to an inchoate core belief that the world will stop hurting you if you can just not deserve it hard enough
the energy use argument is very compelling. why does it necessarily imply that veganism is the solution though? wouldn't simply reducing meat consumption by a large amount (say to 10% of typical American levels) get nearly all of the benefit without also being troublesome?