Farming is intense work though and it’s not like gardening where it’s more of a hobby rather than working to feed yourself off of what you grow. Additionally, everything has an ideal growing season and freak accidents can happen where a lot of the crop can get destroyed even after putting a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into it.
Vegans really underestimate how difficult it is to plant things, and if the whole world went vegan, way more farmland would need to be made to sustain that because of how much plants people that aren’t vegan already eat. You also need to eat way higher volume of food to obtain the nutrients needed, and that can be hard to maintain as well, especially if you aren’t a big eater to begin with. From a pure logistic standpoint, vegetarianism is far easier to maintain for the reason you can eat some foods that are more satisfying and filling with smaller quantities than if you were vegan.
From what I’ve seen, the only people making the decisions to go vegan mostly live in first world countries and do it because they have access to way more fresh produce and meat substitutes to make it more enjoyable. With vegetarianism, some do it by choice too, other times because of poverty, but overall is way easier to maintain and includes things like actual cheese, butter, milk, and eggs, which are often way cheaper than the vegan alternatives, such as cashew cheese and almond milk. The vegans that I’ve seen stick with it longer typically allow meat and cheese alternatives regularly in their diet which can be expensive for those not at a certain income level.
