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Objectively, vegan diets are better for the planet than equivalent omnivorous ones.
There's honestly more impactfull things we could collectively do like decarbonizing electricity and transportation, building walkable cities, etc. You definitely don't have to go vegan to be an environmentalist, and I'm not even sure it's the highest impact personal change you could do.
There's some particularly bad vegan foods for the environment, like air freighted berries. But those foods aren't exclusively vegan, and aren't hard to avoid. The foods you'd actually consume a lot more of as a vegan like beans and nuts are way better for the environment than beef or chicken.
The fluffy rhetoric in your magazine doesn't actually align with the facts as laid out in that study. The study doesn't actually find that being vegan helps the environment at all. it only shows that the consumption habits of vegans require less environmentally destructive practices than those of non-vegans, but it doesn't show that any less destructive behavior actually takes place. in fact it looks like more destructive behavior takes place year-over-year regardless of whether vegans exist.
Companies exist to maximize profit.
If more vegans exist, the normal thing you'd expect is decreased production of meat products and increased production of beans.
The effect from one person is negligible, but it adds up.
not necessarily. there are certainly more vegans today than any time in the past (i'm just guessing here), but more animals are killed than any time in the past, as well.