Researchers have linked dietary data from over 55,000 individuals with data on the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. The team, from the Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project at the University of Oxford, found that the dietary impacts of vegans were around a third of those of high meat eaters. They also saw a 30% difference between high- and low-meat diets for most of the measures of environmental harm.
If you want to eat animals because it’s more sustainable to eat ruminants where you live, you need to for health reasons, Circle Of Life bs, or because those animals would eat you first given half the chance, fine.
Killing conscious creatures because you “just like the taste” is a little fucked, though.
You should show the lives you deign to end and make a part of yourself more respect than that.