You're begging the question. By labeling it virtue signaling, you've already dismissed it as false, as not a genuinely held moral position.
What if someone honestly believed that giving up meat was the moral thing to do, given the current conditions of the world?
Remember that nearly all of the things we now hold as self-evident (racial equality, gender equality, sexual orientation equality, etc) were once radical / crazy positions. Were the people who were ahead of the morality curve virtue signaling?
You're begging the question. By labeling it virtue signaling, you've already dismissed it as false, as not a genuinely held moral position.
What if someone honestly believed that giving up meat was the moral thing to do, given the current conditions of the world?
Remember that nearly all of the things we now hold as self-evident (racial equality, gender equality, sexual orientation equality, etc) were once radical / crazy positions. Were the people who were ahead of the morality curve virtue signaling?