Why vegans are hated by meat-eaters

real_aurgathor

As per some research, there is a measurable amount of hatred toward vegans by ‘meaters’. [meat-eaters]

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.”

“In our research, we found that people even wanted to act aggressively towards vegetarians or exclude them from social circles,” Malila shared.

The researchers explained that these mixed feelings reflect the “prevailing climate” of understanding the need to minimize meat consumption for environmental reasons.

“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,” they wrote.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/11/science/why-do-people-hate-vegans-science-may-have-the-answer/

People hating other people for their beliefs or practice that should not have any direct effect on them?!? That seems so backwards, and I simply can’t believe that could happen here in the land of the free…. After, all, the less meat vegans eat, more left for meaters, so they should really appreciate the vegans instead.

Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950329324002829

dave

Obviously, it’s their meat-based diets that make them so easily enraged.

egeezer

One of my kids and spouse are vegetarians. When we go to visit them, we always go to at least one vegetarian restaurant. I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find some really good dishes, and gotten a few tasty recipes.

Indian and Chinese restaurants often have a variety of vegetarian and vegan dishes.

That does not dissuade me from a great brisket, pork shoulder, pot roast ham and bean soup, BKT or slaw dog on the grill.

Somewhat-Reticent

Sounds like a virtue-signalling propaganda-directed “study”. Food is food.
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& Aha - perhaps it’s a study of the consequences of vegan virtue-signalling!

real_aurgathor

Somewhat-Reticent Sounds like a virtue-signalling propaganda-directed “study”. Food is food.

Virtue signaling by whom?

real_aurgathor

dave

dave Obviously, it’s their meat-based diets that make them so easily enraged.

Well, I do eat meat, but I don’t get enraged. Maybe I’m just one of kind…. or perhaps there are some other factor(s) at play.

broknsymetry

When I was a vegetarian many years ago my wife and I invited a doctor, his wife and daughter to dinner at our country home. They were originally from India and had never touched so much as a bite of meat or animal products. The meal was supposed to be cooked and served by representatives from a company that retailed very high end cookware that we were considering for purchase. Well before the scheduled date we informed them of our dietary needs - no meat of any kind, no milk or milk products, no cheese and no eggs. They agreed to our terms and assured us that it would be prepared with our wishes. They were doing well until they plopped several unshelled eggs into the main dish to demonstrate how items can be cooked together to save time. We immediately ushered the company reps from our home - food, cookware and all. They could not understand why we were so angry. I apologized to our guests and took everyone into town to a vegan restaurant of their choice.

egeezer

real_aurgathor Virtue signaling by whom?

Good question. IMO people who get their knickers in a knot about other peoples’ personal preferences need to chill out.

Sparkchaser

I never cared about what other people ate but it should be the same for us meat eater.

I am not a carnivorous monster. 😜

Rook

egeezer IMO people who get their knickers in a knot about other peoples’ personal preferences need to chill out.

Yeah. Unless it’s a Jeffery Dahmer situation, I don’t care that much what other people eat.
This whole idea that “vegans are hated by meat-eaters” is news to me.

broknsymetry

Astyanax we informed them of our dietary needs - no meat of any kind, no milk or milk products, no cheese and no eggs.

…and you need a “study” to understand why this angers people??

Why should it anger the company reps, they asked if there were any special requests or restrictions and they agreed to our request?

It couldn’t possibly be because they’re being picky and selfish and if it isn’t done perfectly to their specifications this ensues:

broknsymetry We immediately ushered the company reps from our home - food, cookware and all. They could not understand why we were so angry.

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I assume that you are referring to my guests from India. They were neither picky nor selfish, it was their culture not to eat meat. They did not get angry, I did, because the people who represented the company who came into my home with the intent of making a sale did not abide by my request and their agreement. I’m reminded of that old vacuum cleaner salesman schtick where he comes into the home, pours dirt all over the floor and fails to clean it up. It usually ends with the housewife throwing him out on his ass followed by the vacuum cleaner.

WalterDnes

Do Jewish protesters attack people for eating non-Kosher food? I don’t think so. But a quickie Youtube search shows many scenes of vegans confronting “non-believers”. Here’s a few.; there are a lot more.

www.youtube.com/shorts/BZ90gfSryvo www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN78WrP9imc www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxjJPZF4P_s www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAgtk4alW_I

I eat meat, but I’m willing to “live and let live”. Apparently some vegans are not. It’s that small nutcase fringe that causes hatred amongst non-vegans.

HardlyWorthit

Or in the words of one of my granddaughters, “meat is murder”.

egeezer

broknsymetry the people who represented the company who came into my home with the intent of making a sale did not abide by my request and their agreement.

Your house, your rules.

If I had specified brisket pulled pork, and they brought baked cauliflower and broccoli(or chicken fried steak and biscuits for that matter), I’d send them packing. My house, my rules.

WalterDnes

urbanriot Nobody cares …

Again, I have no problems with vegans eating a vegan diet. I do care about the nut cases that get in people’s faces for eating meat.

telcodad

All I have to say about all this is - If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them so tasty? 😉

real_aurgathor

WalterDnes But a quickie Youtube search shows many scenes of vegans confronting “non-believers”.
I eat meat, but I’m willing to “live and let live”. Apparently some vegans are not. It’s that small nutcase fringe that causes hatred amongst non-vegans.

PETA type nutcases are a whole different ballgame, and I think they are a very small minority.

egeezer

WalterDnes I do care about the nut cases that get in people’s faces for eating meat.

I care about nut cases that get in other peoples’ faces for their personal choices and lives.

Somewhat-Reticent

telcodad If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them so tasty?

Careful there - you’re tasty too.

telcodad

Somewhat-Reticent telcodad If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them so tasty?

Careful there - you’re tasty too.

Yeah, to carnivorous animals (and a few cannibals too). 🙂