Special Report – Vegan Men
By Dr. Justine Butler, Senior Researcher & Writer, Viva!
SPECIAL REPORT
Why are there fewer vegan men than women? Are outdated gender stereotypes holding men back? It’s time to debunk the myths – from the daft to the downright dangerous – and reveal why going vegan is a good choice for men – as well as everyone else.
I asked my colleagues at Viva! to tell me who their favourite vegan activists are, to see what the gender split would be. Most of the names were men, with Joey Carbstrong, Earthling Ed and James Aspey being the most popular. Joey Carbstrong was recently on ITV’s This Morning, discussing death threats a farmer said he’d received from vegans. Earthling Ed encourages dialogue with farmers on the morality of eating animals, while James Aspey took a vow of silence for an entire year just to raise awareness of the planet’s voiceless victims – animals.
These ‘celebrity’ activists are followed by thousands of people on social media and while the movement’s headliners are largely men, it’s the opposite for vegans as a whole.
The number of vegans is rising rapidly – up 360 per cent in the last decade – but how many are men? Surveys suggest that around two thirds of UK vegans are women while only a third are men. Why do vegan women outrank men by a ratio of 2:1? Are men worried that they’ll be seen as less masculine if they don’t eat meat? Have they bought into the old saying that real men eat meat?
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