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I think that a lot of people misinterpreted the book. This book is about the degeneration of our civilisation. Vegetarianism represents slave moral(Sklavenmoral) while carnivorism represents the master moral(Herrenmoral).
Yeong-Hye became a vegetarian after having abominable and gory dreams about bloody meat. That is a metaphor of the degeneration of the civilization. Ancient Greeks and the Romans venerated values like power, dominance and courage. But the propagation of Christianity in Europe weakened the traditional values. Egalitarianism in Christianity embraced weak and inferior and feminine values like love, voluntary poverty and forgiveness. While traditional Greco-Roman values said that human can become divine entity by self-overcoming and disciplining, but Christianity downgraded us humans to passive beings who only hopes for god's salvation, grace or blessing.
But traditional values were not completely perished. While the Romans were fallen, but the Germanic(Aryan) race in Northern Europe still venerated the traditional values. Medieval Chivalry which was made by them proved the superiority of traditional principles again. Medieval Chivalry is a great combination of Christianity and traditional values. That venerates conquerors over martyrs, and integrity and honour over love. Chivalry considers cowardice and dishonour as the worst sin, and that considers that is greater to fight and defeat the enemy than to love or forgive the enemy.
But secularisation, despiritation and pursuit of material things over honour in modernity completely destroyed our traditional values.
Yeong-Hye even started refusing to have sex with her husband. She can't even reproduce. That is a metaphor that means degenerate civilisations which discarded traditional values can't develop anymore.
Later, the protagonist was sent to psych ward. In there, she refused to eat entirely and declares herself as a tree. She died at the end. That is a metaphor for the fall of the degenerate civilisation.
A lot of people(surprisingly including several renowned literature critics) misinterpreted this book as a critique of our society or woke nonsense like eco-feminism. But off course, that is not what Han Kang wanted to say. The novel 'The Vegetarian' is a warning to our degenerate society.