You sound like a person with common sense, that’s exactly what we need. If we draw parallels to people’s approach to religion, I’d say this approach to vegetarianism is like a Scandinavian moderate Protestant. “My belief is my business, and I’ll keep conversations with God in a private channel”. My impression of vegans is better compared to Jehovah’s Witness or a fundamentalist Baptist group. “Because you don’t follow my way of life, there must be something wrong with you”. I eat meat, but not very large amounts. Both because I know it’s not good for my health, and also because I know that overconsumption is bad for the environment. In a regular week, my family has maybe a couple of meat meals (normally with a lot of veggies mixed in, since we mostly cook Asian food), a couple of fish meals and a couple of vegetarian meals. We love cooking curries, so the vegetarian bit is normally pretty easy. I don’t feel that I’m part of a problem by having a lifestyle like this. We enjoy everything in moderation, and years normally pass between the times I sit down with a steak dinner. I definitely think that things would improve a lot if the industrialised, profit-first factory farming would go away, and would like to see smaller local farms be able to provide instead.