NSFW because I’m copying a relevant VCJ meme

Thinking about how my consumption used to subsidize animal abuse, a line of thinking I was directed towards by a vegan in a context of discussing abuse of pets and “work” animals, was a major factor in my becoming a vegan.

I think most of us have encountered carnist and liberal vegan ire when identifying that very hypocrisy, even when the hypocrisy itself is not the focus.

My first question is this:

In a context where nonvegans are attentively engaged in a conversation about dog abuse, how can their enthusiasm and rage over said abuse be realigned to include the animals they enslave and eat?

Saying politely something as impersonal as, “if you feel that way about the violence inflicted on this dog, consider boycotting the industries that sponsor and subsist on the abuse of equally conscious and sentient creatures in numbers so ludicrous you have to use scientific notation to think about them”

seems insufficient because most carnists interpret it as somethjing like “you are as bad as the people who slaughter the animals you try not think about while eating them and you shouldn’t feel bad for this dog”, when what I want to communicate is more like, “there are people whose job is to commit this far worse abuse constantly on an global industrial scale; if you feel this way about a single dog, you might feel good about boycotting said industry”

Is there a general method of kindling empathy out of untargeted libidinal rage?

My second question is this:

Why, in this context, do other vegans feel compelled to defend carnists libidos? Examples like, “don’t be so weird about being vegan”, “don’t reinforce stereotypes about vegans, you’re making us look bad” or “this is really not the time” fall flat to my mind. Comparisons to religious zealots who proselytize door-to-door seem equally illogical, because a philosophy that minimizes exploitation of animals is so fucking germane to a conversation about animal abuse and it would seem to me (tbf, ) that a carnist describing dog abuse as reprehensible is inviting a conversation about minimizing animal abuse, but what do I know?

My third question is this:

Does anybody here have unprecedentedly high charisma and if so, do you encounter the same difficulties as low-C nerds such as myself? Are the liberal vegans right and I should just avoid saying anything?

Thanks for any discussion/advice!