Agreed!
The best way to become veggie is to just not eat meat anymore...at all. Go watch Earthlings and you won't ever get tempted to eat it again!
As for vegan, thats quick a bit harder (BUT AMAZING-ER!) and requires patience, a-lot of research and sacrifice. I am not going vegan but am aiming for 'cruelty free' (Even though i've heard about the 'egg' debate for a long time I don't have a problem consuming PROPER free range eggs

) so will never be vegan

But I am in the 'inbetweeny' stage right now. Don't eat butter/milk but icecream, butter/milk IN things aka cakes and cheese are tough....chocolate...god dam so many things.
So for vegan either go cold turkey or do it like I am. One phase at a time. Next step for me is cutting out all form of cream. Ice cream, whipped cream. All of it. Theres some amazing soya icecreams out there