Posted on 04/17/2025 12:30:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
People seem to always have beef with vegans — and scientists say they’ve figured out why.
A new study published in the journal Food Quality and Preference found that your typical carnivore’s hatred of vegans might simply be due to envy.
Researchers from University of Vaasa in Finland wanted to understand why a plant-based diet and the use of meat substitutes are still so frowned upon in Europe. “The consumption of meat and meat substitutes is a highly charged social phenomenon,” Roosa-Maaria Malila, an author of the study, said in a statement. “According to our research, consumers who prefer plant-based alternatives are perceived as socially different — and not in a good way.”
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This meat lover only hates vegans who want to take my meat away.
If they want to eat like rabbits, fine. But don’t make me eat like one!
I think they’re mistaking envy for being incensed at the constant hectoring.
Strange... I don’t see protests of vegetables by meat-eaters. I see very many Vegans protesting meat products. If meat-eaters hate vegans, it’s only in response to the hate directed at them.
“Scientists” State funded trouble makers.
Because too many vegans don’t just practice veganism - they view it as a religion that must be spread to the meat eaters.
It would only be because vegans are pushy, insufferable, self-righteous, condemning better than thou's who can't live and let live but feel obligated, like all democrats and leftists, to force everyone to comply with their version of reality.
I love vegans. More meat for me.
Because vegans not only don’t want to eat meat, they don’t want anyone else to eat meat either.
Exactly.
It’s irritating, though, when someone wants me to go with them to a vegan restaurant for one simple reason. The vegan restaurants don’t offer a meat selection. The meat restaurants offer non meat selections so, in my opinion, the meat restaurants are doing all the heavy lifting in this regard.
“Understandably, changing one’s own consumption habits is not so simple. This can be reflected in frustration and channeled through those who are already driving change”
Feeling like it’s hot outside? It’s because I had a fish burrito for lunch.
Nonsense. I don’t hate vegans, I worry about their health.
It’s NOT envy.
I don’t at all envy someone who chooses to eat meatless.
Projection,
again.
I’m on the carnivore diet (I only eat animal products), and I don’t hate vegans.
I don’t hate them,, they are another source of protein. J/k
I honestly dont give a crap what someone eats, but what I do mind is if they expect something special to be provided for them because they are weird.
This article is nonsense.
Where’s the beef!
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