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@Oliver Schick
This has been going on for a while and I've been following it slightly:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/29/ethical-vegan-jordi-casamitjana-protected-status-court-tribunal
I'm not sure if I'd consider it a good thing if veganism became a protected belief. I completely understand why people want it (and I know many people are currently in situations in which they are discriminated against), but I don't think it's something that only has positives; there's always the official 'othering' (as opposed to the existing unofficial one) that comes with it, and that can be very damaging, e.g. it may make people think of it as more of an inflexible and quite high threshold to cross rather than the gradual adoption of veganism that most go through (which may take longer, but which from talking to people I think is more sustainable and generally longer-lasting). I think I'd rather it continued to gradually seep in. However, I can't predict what consequences this would have, and I may well be completely wrong.