Animals are feeling sentient beings, there is worse effect to environments and the world with animal agriculture and there is much more water, land and resources used, and it isn’t even better for our health. So we in our modern society do not need any of the things from animals. There is no good reason for people to not know about this, so all this should be communicated. People decide what to do themselves, and hopefully they will the right way.
I think yes and no.
I was shocked to find out that a lot of people I knew didn’t understand that cows needed to be continually impregnated to produce milk, or that male chicks were culled en masse as part of the chicken flesh and egg industries. So there definitely is a still a lot of ignorance out there.
I think you’re also right that there’s not a lot of awareness about what a healthy vegan diet looks like.
Further, I think many don’t understand just how cruel animal agriculture really is. But also, a lot of people just don’t want to look.
Most people I know understand that I’ve been vegan for years, so it’s obviously possible to live just fine on a vegan diet. Yet for whatever reason, they don’t seem to care enough to change their behaviour.
It seems to be a combination of anxiety about social exclusion, loss of convenience, loss of pleasure, and fear of change, among others. I find lack of knowledge to be a less common issue.
It’s honestly been a disheartening experience for me, and I’ve lost some faith in humanity as well as the people I’ve held as friends.