So I travel for work and we were out for dinner one night and one of my coworkers asked why I was vegan. Personally is animal rights along the lines of treat things how you want to be treated.

I said that “you can’t say you love animals and then eat beef” and they replied with something along the lines of that’s a broad generalization you can’t say.

Have any of you dealt with this? It was about a 2 hour conversation where everything I said was met with a straw man. The one that got under my skin the most was that my personal choices don’t affect corporations i.e. not buying milk at the grocery store does nothing to affect a dairy corporation.

I wanted to know you thoughts experiences and advice on navigating this in the future

Edit: spelling