Should veganism receive the same legal protection as a religion?

[Major Nikon]

53. Most care more about thinking they are morally superior

Almost all food production results in animal suffering. Habitat is destroyed, pests are eradicated often in extremely painful ways, animals are chewed up by harvesting and processing machinery. Some animal consumption actually results in less suffering than some vegetable production, particularly with sources of high quality plant protein vegans can’t live without. Any vegan who tells you they don’t cause the suffering of animals should have thought beyond their self-righteousness, because they are simply wrong.

Your statement makes as much sense as asking a vegan if they are OK with feeding a rodent bait laced with cement that solidifies their intestines so they slowly starve to death while dealing with excruciating pain. All that really does is reduce the argument to an obvious appeal to emotion.