One of my best friends is a Hare Krishna and has been since the 70s. Its not a problem for either of us because she doesn’t try to arm twist me into becoming a Krishna devotee and respects my spiritual path.
I likewise respect hers and refrain from opining that I think that their belief system is wacky. Shes also a strict vegetarian and even eating anywhere with the smell of meat cooking is kind of revolting to her.
So, when we’re at my house I don’t cook meat out of simple respect. I can certainly survive for a few days without meat. It isn’t going to kill me to eat a little more healthfully. As a matter of fact shes given me quite a few helpful hints and suggestions over the years on all sorts of supplements etc. for boosting health in general.
When we eat out, its not that difficult to find either Asian or Indian places with vegetarian food and we’ve managed to find several places serving top quality food in the process.
And for ten+ years I lived in a house share where the owner was an agnostic Orthodox Jewish guy who kept strict kosher and was an extremely observant Orthodox in every respect (even tho he reserved his right to question if God even existed. An interesting dichotomy to say the least.
It never offered to me, even for a second, to have nothing at all to do with them. I have a difficult time identifying with those who have an all or nothing mentality about this.
Needless to say we had numerous ongoing conversations about our totally opposite views and I learned a lot.