[gorbot]

been vegan for 5+ years, so has my wife, not going back any time soon. Some friends were vegan for years but recently started eating some eggs. My mom was vegan for a little bit but stopped.

I think it depends on your reason for going vegan. Some do it for health or the environment, and maybe those people don't stick to it? You might not see the health results you wish, or you lose motivation being like great I'm one less hamburger when Taylor Swift flies across the world every 5 minutes. Me + my wife do it for humanitarian reasons and I have yet to wake up and be like "today I don't care about the animals anymore", but that's just me.

I don't think I've seen someone who flipped due to animal rights going back to eating meat, but super super small sample size.

I do see, however, articles like this all the time. My opinion is that it gets clicks by people who want to validate not being vegan (like people who are afraid to take the plunge), meat-heads who love hating on vegans, or people who are maybe curious but then read this and be like "oh I guess nobody stays vegan". Also there may or may not be a lot of vested interest in the meat industry's success, so perhaps there's some incentive to post articles like this.

The soybean farmer may enjoy the fact that I eat the beans they grow versus some cow, but cows eat so much more than me and if everyone went vegan overnight or all meat cows died or whatever, soy prices would plummet and the farmers would go broke

[karmakurtisaani]

> soy prices would plummet and the farmers would go broke

Seems like a small price to pay for getting those fields back to hosting natural life.