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In a roundabout sort of way, veganism is an ideology that revolves around human supremacy (a common accusation against meat eaters), in a more benevolent way (humanity has a selfhood which makes us above other animals and we should take pity on them) instead of the Christian way (humans are god's creatures and animals aren't). I'm on the position that humans and animals [going to insert insects here retroactively, read John Gray's Straw Dogs] are on the same level [originally, i put 'spiritually', but i don't particularly know.
Veganism is focused on only the eating part about killing animals, blind sighting themselves and avoiding aspects such as self-defense, clothing [a common area where the more preachy vegans are hypocrites], ease of access (a whole deer carcass can feed a person for a month or so)... alternatives to animal-based products usually come with more drawbacks, let me not even start on the side effects of plastic and its consequences.
Like most ideologies spouted nowadays, one of the critical problems of veganism is its 'one size fits all' mindset, in its blind preaching it assumes all humans have the same gut biome, energy requirements, allergies (or lack thereof), and other such individual differences. Gandhi, for example, had tried veganism and disregarded it as a sham after how much effort it took for him to reach the same amount of energy when he was consuming dairy, for example.
Another aspect that is forgotten is that most meat is from DOMESTICATED animals, ones which have adapted through breeding in order to live in close association with people as food.