Sure, one person giving it up may not stop the negative actions from eating meat, but we live in a society in which your actions influence thousands of other fa

Sure, one person giving it up may not stop the negative actions from eating meat, but we live in a society in which your actions influence thousands of other factors. If activists for causes we now commonly accept pretended that any change in their own lifestyle would be futile, we wouldn't have advanced much as a society. I'm not claiming that veganism is beneficial to society, but that your argument is rather fallacious.