• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    There seems to be a wildly unusual anti-meat sentiment on Lemmy. It’s disproportionate from my experience in person.

    I wonder if it means anything.

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      Lemmy’s userbase is currently skewed very left wing, many people on the left are vegan or vegetarian or at least care about climate change enough to see reduction in meat consumption as a necessity to fixing it.

      So it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that you see more anti-meat discourse.

      Disclaimer: I eat meat

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        I don’t think many on the left are vegan or vegetarian, I think that those two groups tend to live in the left spectrum. They’re far outweighed by those that do eat meat.

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          True, but the proportion of non-meat eaters is certainly much higher with the sort of people that make up the majority of this community than with the whole population

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        I am left wing but I’m not vegan and I’ll never be vеgаn and that is my personal choice

        I don’t mind if others are vеgаn or vegetarian but when you start bullying people off a platform for not being vеgаn then that’s when I do mind

        If I do see any of that bullying I do report it and I suggest you should too

        /positive connotation

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        I’m confused by this and totally open for evidence that proves otherwise, but literally everyone I know who is vegetarian or vegan is a bit more or…insanely more on the conservative side.

        I don’t know any liberal vegetarian or vegans.

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          Depends on where you’re from. There are countries like India where being vegetarian is a conservative, religious policy, where as in the US, being vegetarian (mostly vegan) is a liberal choice.

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          Vegan here. I don’t know any conservative vegans, except for a single YouTuber. From an anti-oppression perspective, being on the right doesn’t really make sense for veganism. The right will perpetually define the needless taking of conscious life as personal choice as if the choice itself is morally relevant. Anyway, perhaps you live in an area with lots of repubs and neolibs?

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          That’s fascinating, here in Germany it’s the opposite, at least in my experience. Everyone I know who is vegetarian or vegan (including me) tends to lean more left than those who eat meat.

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          I think you know some crunchy people. Or some republicans with a little bit of extra brain damage. There is a very strong left bias in vegan circles and vegetarians to a lesser extent

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          I think overall I associate more people on the left being vegan than the right; however, anecdotally I know more vegans that are conservative/right leaning. I don’t know why that is other than maybe it being a fairly well off area with hippie roots.

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      The average lemmy user is more educated and empathetic to the impact of the industrial meat industry than the average person?

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      Meh. I’m not vegan. I just thought it was an interesting connection. Possibly another example of nature fighting back.