Power with our choices
We have no need to beat ourselves over things that involved use of animals that we just can't avoid. Veganism seems to mean choosing where we actually have a choice to not have something that involved use of animals. I understand there is a long way of discovery, one which I avoided after a comparatively short time. After a little more than a couple of years, maybe half a year more, after I was certainly vegan by choice, I found the way of whole food plant-based eating which is so healthy for us it is the effective way to avoid cancers and circulatory problems that can risk life, and a number of other real issues. So then I avoided most packaged items with processed foods, and get a lot of produce for my food, and few prepared items that I know are vegan, and there's been almost nothing to check since then.