Change who you associate with.
It’s not always that easy though, is it. Again, case in point, this very thread.
Eg, one attack amongst many a few years ago, I was out with work. Down south with a team I didn’t really know, everything was fine until my boss suddenly went “where’s your meat?” I said I didn’t eat meat. Cue a cross-examination from the entire table for the next half an hour rolling out every cliché under the sun.
It happens, it happens consistently and continually, and it is incredibly tedious. Shut the **** up and eat your bacon, I really don’t care. Just leave me alone.
Then got insulted for serving and eating meat. Christ, i even borrowed a *second grill* so i wouldn’t have to cook the vegan stuff on the same surface as the meat.
Then what you have there is what we non-meat eaters tend to call “idiots” and as I’ve said before it’s a vocal minority who give the rest a bad name whatever the demographic.
That said you lost me at “even,” that should be a baseline rather than an exception. Go you for not coating vegetarian food in pig grease.