Understand your points of view. I too ate meat for a long time. I too defended that position with same ferocity you do. But I was wrong to do it.

And you're wrong on too many points to discuss it at full - sorry, no space here, also have family to feed and work to do. My bookmarks folder about dangers of animal products/agriculture has hundreds of items. I'll cherrypick just few of them to get you started.

You'll find several of your viewpoints discussed here:

https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en

Want to learn more? (pun intended)

Movies:

- I'd recommend Dominion movie again, but you won't probably see it, and even if you do, i don't think the suffering of animals/horrors of the meat production will be enough to change your opinions, so I'll talk about it from different angle.

- Cowspiracy

- Seaspiracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7JE8j5Ncmw - This man makes you think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI - Dairy is scary

Health:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ - Dr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHYHjchn6w - Foods for Protecting the Body & Mind: Dr. Neal Barnard

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatthehealth - What the Health! (2017)

Impacts on biodiversity / climate change:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/30/us-food-...

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/11/the-meat-industry-is-borrow...

OK, I'll react to few of your points.

> "never personally eat meat strikes me as a bit of a neurotic, narcissistic response"

So avoiding killing is a neurotic, narcissistic response? Like, really?

> "to avoid ice cream to spare dairy cows who are clearly, if you meet them, quite happy with their jobs"

Are you sure? I've met a lot of them, when i was a child. You know that cows giving milk are mothers, forcefully impregnated/raped every year, with their calf taken from them on the day it's born? They loudly grieve for days/weeks, sometimes hiding the calf from the farmer only to be taken away from them days later? Do you know that producing milk on industrial scale shortens lifespan of cows to cca 1/3 (5-6 years instead of 20+), only to leave the cow exhausted/crippled and killed (changed into burgers) in the end?

Why we drink cow milk? Why not rat milk, giraffe milk, dog milk, human milk ... why it has to be cow milk? Why are cca 50-70% of people milk intolerant? Do you know about pus in the milk? About linked diseases like parkinsons and other autoimmune diseases linked to milk? That cow eating grass near industrial factory will eat more pollutants in a day than somebody living near breathing air for 14 years? About bioaccumulation of toxins in the milk/meat? About all proteins/b12 coming from plants/bacteria, not from the animals?

> And your next point - war.

You're clearly an american. Your country is the only country in the world being involved in wars constantly for 250+ years, achieving so little for so high a price. Your viewpoints mirror the indocrination you've received. It does not reflect reality either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_involv...

I could go on and on, have to go, leaving you to it, sorry.