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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

MountCleaners

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4. Maybe vegans are used to those images

Reply to Beringia (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 10, 2019, 04:46 PM

Mar 2019

...with the internet and all, I would guess that the people most likely to seek out images and articles about animal abuse and suffering would be vegans, so maybe they've been exposed to lots of those images and so the reactions aren't stronger.

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Differing Empathy in Vegetarians, Vegans, and Omnivores (a study) [View all] Beringia Feb 2019 OP

Also note empathy is only 10% higher in Vegans and Vegetarians than Omnivores Beringia Feb 2019 #1

Maybe vegans are used to those images MountCleaners Mar 2019 #4

For me the biggest reason I turned off meat was because of the mental picture that formed in my in2herbs Feb 2019 #2

I don't remember when I really locked onto vegetarianism Beringia Feb 2019 #3

At the time it was a spiritual practice for me MountCleaners Mar 2019 #5

Thanks for sharing Beringia Mar 2019 #6

Found this page saved on my phone Duppers Feb 2021 #7