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@sammyo
Epistemology is concerned with ways of knowing. It is not concerned with whether or not you happen to understand something ;)
Tosspot bit: me too, no worries at all. But you are pretty wrong here.
Obligations generally: too long, a debate for another time. But I bet I could convince you otherwise.
Vegan bit: it's really interesting that you say the state has too much involvement already. Most people when they say that mean that the state is already encroaching too much on our ability to do what we want and be who we are.
This kind of legislation is quite non-statist in that way, it basically includes the state telling itself to back off and not get involved. It is therefore not illiberal because it is an attempt to protect the negative liberty of individuals.
But maybe you don't like the state telling people who they can discriminate against? In that case, you are saying that the state shouldn't get involved when either (a) the state or (b) other persons want to behave a little capriciously.
State protection bit: you've already acknowledged a way in which vegans need state protection: prison food. There really might not be too many others. But the point is that belief systems like veganism and atheism can occasionally form the basis of unfair and unequal treatment and (on this basis) that it might be a good thing that they be protected as well.