One of my coworkers, who happens to be vegan, was getting teased by a kid at work. Now to update, this coworker used to be kind of opinionated in the past and some of her discussions were rather inappropriate to the context of our job. She was warned about what is not appropriate to say around kids (because their parents might take it the wrong way) and she got the hint and backed off on the opinionated comments.
But this kid was really giving her the third degree. So I decided to step in and fight ignorance. I told him, “Why are you giving her a hard time about what she does and does not eat? She’s not calling you a moron for eating meat.” and the kid shut up.
I know I wrote a pit thread about this same coworker a while back, but I really think she cleaned up her act lately, which has made it much easier to work with her. As such, I feel it only courteous to stand up for someone who is legitimately trying to do a good job. She also knows I’m a few handfuls of iceberg lettuce short of being a total carnivore, and lately we have been in pretty good humor about our dietary habits. She will mention how the veggie burgers at McDonalds are no good because they are cooked in grease that was near/in chicken meat, and I’ll protest, “But that’s what makes them taste so good!” 
and we’ll both have a good laugh.
My aversion to vegetables is about as strong as her aversion to meat, so somehow we cancel each other out 
