Omnivores holding back our species

We know well enough that maintaining an animal-food habit doesn’t ensure good nutrition. We know that animal foods are the chief destroyers of health, but we want animals’ bodies, so we kill them and eat them to satisfy our tastebuds and stomach. We’d suffer withdrawals if we stopped. So, that’s a tricky mental condition. If we’re hooked on animal products we can’t give them up, especially since they’re in almost everything we eat. They’re surreptitiously included in foods and we don’t know it unless we study the fine print of the ingredients. The main problem we older or sight-challenged vegans have is that we forget to take our glasses with us when we go shopping; the listings are not prominent.
Showing ingredients is compulsory on packaging. Nevertheless it being almost undetectable and amounts not stated this isn’t very helpful, unless one is boycotting the product for having any animal ingredient. Consequently more and more meat or by-product is slipped into our favourite foods without our realising. We become slaves to our own eating habits. No meal is thought to be complete without meat or at least some cheese or milk-derived product. Animal ‘body parts’ feature in most meals or snacks. And these meats, cheeses, eggs and fats not only poison us but numb us to the ethics of animal husbandry. People don’t feel ashamed of their general ignorance when it comes to farm procedures, it’s the ‘man’ in us who doesn’t think about his ethics when he’s having his dinner. And even when it’s obvious that these products are associated with our state of poor health, we still want them and continue to buy and eat them.
Even if we did want to stop using ‘it all’, we’d have too little faith in ourselves - we “wouldn’t have the willpower to stop altogether”. Secretly we realise how these habits and addictions work – you have to be all or nothing about them. Give into them or boycott them, If we don’t make a complete break they have a way of creeping back into our shopping basket.
It seems then we are doomed - neither logic nor ill health nor guilt nor environmental impact will stop us buying ‘animal’ and therefore nothing will stop the killing of animals for food, and therefore we collectively can’t move on as a species.
Having empathy for food-animals is rare, so let’s say that at the moment, here in Australia, ‘it’ isn’t happening. Animals don’t touch our hearts enough. Our omnivore friends are brick walls when it comes to animal liberation and vegan diets.
And yet people come over - vegans do exist and are growing in number, leaving behind their omnivore habits, taking up empathy for exploited animals. By walking away from the omnivore and taking up with the vegan ... is there anything else to add, anything more we need to say?