There's no clear connection between the two parts of your statement here. If the problem is factory farming and climate impact, then eating meat is not inherent

There's no clear connection between the two parts of your statement here. If the problem is factory farming and climate impact, then eating meat is not inherently evil. If it's inherently evil, then factory farming and climate impact don't matter. Ten dudes throwing spears at a mammoth 15,000 years ago were just as evil. That, I think, would be the source of the disconnect. Food is not just a core component of regional cultures and histories, it's a core identifier of all life. Species are known, in large part, by what they eat. Thankfully, for humans, because we populated the entire globe and have omnivore guts, that can be just about anything, but in many cases, particular animals, particular cuts, and particular methods of preparation, cooking, and flavoring are deeply intertwined with an entire group of people and their history. If you're telling people eating meat is inherently evil, you're well, one, telling them they're evil, so it shouldn't be a huge surprise they find that offensive. But you're also telling them their family is evil, their friends are evil, their ancestors and entire culture is evil. Does it really not make sense that the reception to this may not be great? For what it's worth, I don't even know that I disagree that eating meat in most circumstances, given the way it's being produced, is a morally worse option than other ways to feed yourself, and I've greatly reduced but not totally eliminated my own meat consumption, but there's also the element of "no ethical consumption under capitalism" going on here. Wheat harvests utterly obliterate small fauna. Your clothes and probably sewn together in sweat shops by child labor. The batteries in your electric car are strip mined in some poor victim of colonialism country where the land is owned by foreigners. Nonetheless, you have to consume something. People need food, clothes, transportation, housing, and it can be overwhelming to consider every step of every supply chain to think of all the ways in which evil may creep into the system. Historically speaking, we've mostly relied on governments to curb that kind of thing, not individual consumer choice. Rather than expecting every person downstream to know that their Nutella* has palm oil in it that decimates rainforests with soil-depleting monoculture, destroying the most diverse ecosystem in existence and also one of the world's great carbon sinks, and then opting to eat something else, we hope that national governments and international treaties prevent manufacturers from doing the worst things in the first place. * Yes, Nutella the company claims it is sustainably produced and doesn't destroy rainforests, but are you personally confirming that?