I wouldn't say that's hypocritical. A vegan doesn't eat meat, that's still a good contribution to the cause of animal welfare without the need of isolating ones

I wouldn't say that's hypocritical. A vegan doesn't eat meat, that's still a good contribution to the cause of animal welfare without the need of isolating oneself from the human community. It's simply preposterous to ask people who have ethical convictions to apply them to the (usually very unpleasant) extreme or being branded incoherent or hypocritical. On the other hand, I don't think it should be a big issue to eat some meat once in a while by mistake. The impact on the general cause is negligible.