Whenever this topic comes up, it makes me wonder if healthcare costs are factored into the equation. Imagine how much money could be saved when a person can have both cheaper groceries and potentially get off their blood pressure meds, or various other prescriptions that only exist to mitigate the harms of all the lifestyle diseases.
Beans are cheap, tasty and good for you.
Murdering animals in cold blood through the use of mechanical murdering contraptions is just expensive. First you gotta birth the animal, then you gotta feed it and grow it, not give it a name and after all that you gotta murder it then butcher it, separate the pieces and sell it, then you gotta work to get money, then you gotta go to the store and you gotta choose the annual bodyparts you are interested in consuming like a weirdo, then you gotta pay for it, carry it all over and into your car. Then you gotta drive it home and cook it…
Being vegan is not elitist.