There are plenty of right wingers who eat a vegan diet, but I would say it's impossible to be right wing and and support animal liberation. You can't abolish the exploitation of non-human animals without getting rid of capitalism.
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I know them. They're a minority, but I know them. Some people focus on the spiritual and avoid the material. When non-vegan leftists argue that veganism is a right-wing issue, there are heaps of statistical evidence that we can use to refute it. Also this. And this.
They are definitely a thing but it's always for weird pseudoscientific health reasons. It's a diet fad, basically.
there are no right-wing vegans
There are plenty of them.
I would argue being anti-human disqualifies you from veganism as it is inherently speciesist.
Yes, but right wing people usually have "cognitive dissonance" so they don't have a coherent logic for their life. And I'm not talking about "knowing you should be vegan but too lazy/self-indulgent to do so", I'm talking about examples like:
- "I'm vegan cuz it's the right thing, and it's also the right thing for people with inferior genes to live in poverty and work for me"
But there's also examples of:
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"I'm vegan not only cuz I love my golden retriever but also because it's healthier so I get to live longer and with more energy which is exactly what (((they))) don't want"
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"I'm vegan cuz that gets me a personality and it's an elitist fad so it increases my chances to fuck hot rich people"
But why?
Cognitive dissonance, or however is called when you never even try to make two ideas bump into each other inside your head yet hold both of them as truths
Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't see how veganism is necessarily left-wing?
Because compassion over brutal hierarchies?
It is not necessarily left-wing, but vegans usually want to disassemble hierarchies (like left-wingers), which of the meat industry is one of the worst examples today.