Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And...
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.