{"id":755198,"date":"2018-11-08T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755198"},"modified":"2018-11-08T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:20:45","slug":"abuse-from-non-vegans-is-constant-why-does-veganism-prompt-such-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755198","title":{"rendered":"‘Abuse From Non-Vegans Is Constant’: Why Does Veganism Prompt Such Fury?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Sometimes our very existence is enough to invoke aggressive, irrational, flailing behaviour from some meat eaters. Like we threaten their worldview.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

SARA SPARY:<\/strong> ‘You probably noticed last week\u2019s top vegan news. That ended with William Sitwell, editor of Waitrose magazine, leaving his job… Within minutes of Sitwell\u2019s email leaking \u2013 it suggested that vegans should be killed \u2013 people were making their views heard… \u201cThis is about our right to free speech,\u201d others insisted in what has been a soya-based feast for the media and trolls. One Twitter wit coined the term \u201cTofu Taliban\u201d. But why, in a nation that sees itself as tolerant and upholds the right to personal choice, does veganism prompt so much fury?…<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes our very existence is enough to invoke aggressive, irrational, flailing behaviour from some meat eaters. Like we threaten their worldview,\u201d explains one vegan, 28-year-old Lucy Futcher from Leicester… She told HuffPost UK: \u201cAbuse from non-vegans is just a constant thing. Whether it\u2019s online and someone posts some hilariously unoriginal joke about bacon or in real life. Once you\u2019ve heard the same old jokes at your expense, over and over again for years, they lose their edge. It\u2019s not funny anymore, it\u2019s just boring”…<\/em><\/p>\n

But why does veganism seem to prompt such a hostile response? \u201cA lot of it is to do with how our food practices are a really important part of how we construct our social identity, and how they\u2019re a really important part of our home and family lives \u2013 and how we contextualise who we are and what we\u2019re about,\u201d Kate Stewart a vegan and principal lecturer at Nottingham Trent University\u2019s School of Social Sciences, where she studies human behaviour and how we interpret information about food, explains…<\/em><\/p>\n

Vegans have always been stigmatised, Stewart says, but social media has created both a direct channel and screen of anonymity for people looking to air their views on veganism. This goes for both meat eaters attacking vegans and vegans challenging each other, and gets to the heart of what makes us human: our sense of identity’.<\/em> SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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