Comment by reddig33@lemmy.world on This tick’s spit can make you allergic to meat

Think about the impact it would have on climate change if humans were allergic to meat.

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.

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

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.

They’re far outweighed by those that do eat meat.

Hehe, meat-eaters fat

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

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.

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.

Wait, really? My experience has been the exact opposite. Where do you live, generally?

Huh, fascinating. I grew up in the Northeast and live in the Southeast now. I wanna do a sociological study on this.

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.

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?

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

Fair enough, appreciate the insight!

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.

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

Who’s being bullied?

I haven’t seen any bullying by vegetarians at all

there’s a video of a bunch of vegans stoping a truck from moving for a few hours, truly terrifying terrorism

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

We’re all ticks here

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

Lemmy is a foss anti-coporate project, what kind of demographics do you expect to see here ?

Lemmy is a vegan trans leftist echo chamber

These damn vegan echo chambers. They’re talking about vegan recipes to try out

And sharing our seitanic rites.

I could think of worse echo chambers

Maybe, but echo chambers are never a good thing

I’m in the “human rights are good, actually” echo chamber

Everyone is the good guy in their own mind

Lemmy.world atleast is a space to discuss things positively but I’d rather it not become an echo chamber

Source: me being a leftist who says trans rights are human rights

Ecoterrorists finally figured it out.

I suppose. but I worry about those who cannot biologically process a vegetarian diet no matter the supplements they take. If they get bitten by the tick, they’re fucked

You’d have to be pretty damn unlucky to not only have one rare condition affecting your diet, but also get bitten by the makes-you-vegetarian-bug

I do hate that this is downvoted as your comment seems to have been targeted out of rash and inflammatory reaction to your comment

Your comment is logical and I believe people who don’t choose to be vеgаn shouldn’t be forced into it

I’d hoped this response to comments would have stayed on reddit but apparently not

It’s a shame, but tribalism is built into our species; the moment someone gets even a whiff of ‘us vs them’, it comes back into the forefront.

That’s a thing? I mean, non-meat products are… well, an absolute fuckton. Obviously I know there’s stuff like gluten or fructose intolerance, allergies, etc.,but the spectrum of “things that aren’t meat” just seems too large for somebody to be incapable to live without it. Like, you would have to be absolute stacked with rare medical issues affecting your dietary options.

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it’s too interesting, it doesn’t belong. If it’s not interesting, it doesn’t belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh… what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don’t spam.

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