Some people hate that other people don’t eat meat. The Guardian carries a thoughtful primer by the London food writer George Reynolds on this phenomenon. Reynolds prominently notes a 2015 study that finds vegans are hated most by (surprise!) people who occupy the right-wing political ideology. Vegans were hated more than any other group except drug addicts, Reynolds writes.
Conservative anxiety about veganism makes sense. The lifestyle’s increasing prevalence represents a shift in social mores that places more value on animal life, and conservatives, by definition, dislike change.