Discrimination of Vegans
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"omnivores evaluated vegetarians and vegans equivalently or more negatively than several common prejudice target groups (e.g., Blacks) [...] omnivores evaluated vegetarians and vegans [...] motivated by animal rights or environmental concerns (vs. health) especially negatively"
"vegetarians and vegans were evaluated equivalently to immigrants, asexuals, and atheists, and significantly more negatively than Blacks. Vegetarians were evaluated equivalently to homosexuals, whereas vegans were evaluated more negatively than homosexuals" On a scale of 1-7, non-vegans rated their comfort with hiring a vegan (5.97) on par with renting to a person of colour (5.93). In other words, non-vegans statistically discriminate against vegans in the hiring process, and it is equivalently as severe as their discrimination against people of colour. (MacInnis et al., 2015) (Study 1)
Vegans discriminated against at work: 33%: Crossland Employment Solicitors (2019) - a survey conducted by an employment law firm
Homosexuals discriminated against at work: 46%: Williams Institute (2021)
24.5%: Pew Research Center (2013)
21%: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2019)
"between 2015 and 2022, The Times reported a total of 172 vegan hate crimes in the United Kingdom alone. Influential figures publicly add fuel to the anti-vegan fire, with threats ranging from Piers Morgan’s “vegan resistance” to William Sitwell’s desire to kill vegans “one by one.”"
Vegans, in the following percentages, reported:
9.9%: family member(s) reducing contact
3%: family member(s) completely cutting contact
24.5%: friends reducing contact
7.3%: friends completely cutting contact
66.5%: experiencing daily discrimination
77%: engaging in mechanisms to cope with discrimination
9%: not being hired due to discrimination
(MacInnis et al., 2015) (Study 3)
"People who are more “pro-beef” (including greater consumers of beef) are even more prejudiced against vegetarians, a finding that holds up cross-culturally (Earle & Hodson, 2017). The fact that the amount of beef one eats predicts the degree of one’s anti-vegetarian sentiment suggests that some of the anti-vegetarian sentiment is motivated and defensive [...] "Reminders that meat originates from animals reduces anti-veg*n prejudice (by boosting empathy for food animals) and lowers vegan threat perceptions (by increasing meat-based distress); however, it also elevates disgust over eating meat which increases perceptions that veg*ns are threatening (Earle et al., 2019)" (Earle & Hodson, 2017) (Earle & Hodson, 2019)