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Key point here, perhaps: People who don't eat x for religious reasons don't get this hate, at least not so that I've heard it. Jains may be weird but not hated, right?

The hate is (at least that's my impression) for the people who eat this https://src.discounto.de/pics/Angebote/2015-10/1394308/17710... instead of this https://supermarkt24h.de/media/image/product/5991/md/lebensm... and talk as if there's a moral difference.

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As long as you think there is a moral difference between eating and not eating animals, why would a religious vs. non-religious choice matter?

I suppose what I'm saying is that lots people accept religious choice without thinking closely. If your choice isn't religiously motivated, they may take a look at the factory-made gloop you eat, notice that it doesn't look all that different from the factory-made gloop on the other shelf in the supermarket, and conclude (rightly or not) that your moral choice is a shallow one and despise you for your shallowness.

It doesn't matter whether you're actually shallow or thoughtful. IMO it doesn't even matter whether you eat factory-made gloop, so long as the supermarkets stock shelves full of plastic-wrapped stuff labelled "vegan" and you might be assumed to buy and eat it.

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