I'd love them to be vegan just to make our lives easier but I'm kind of used to since all my friends are meat eaters anyway. I'm just getting back to the market after breaking a long term relationship with a vegetarian, so I'm not sure yet where to put my boundaries, it is said that the 0,7% of the population in my country is vegan, so I may die single looking for a vegan partner.
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2025
10 points (91.7% liked)
vegan
3568 readers
194 users here now
Please also check out Lemmy.vg for a great set of well-run communities for vegan news, science, cooking, circlejerking. It is a nice, cozy, all-in-one space for vegans.
We ask that the you have an understanding on what veganism is before engaging in this community.
If you think you have been banned erroneously, please get in contact with one of the other mods for appeals.
Moderator reports may not federate properly and may delay moderator action. Please DM an active mod if an abusive comment remains after reporting it.
Welcome
Welcome to c/vegan@lemmy.world. Broadly, this community is a place to discuss veganism. Discussion on intersectional topics related to the animal rights movement are also encouraged.
What is Veganism?
'Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals ...'
— abridged definition from The Vegan Society
Rules
The rules are subject to change, especially upon community feedback.
- Discrimination is not tolerated. This includes speciesism.
- Topics not relating to veganism are subject to removal.
- Posts are to be as accessible as practicable:
- embedded images of text require alt-text
- posts with an image of text should have a transcription in the body or alt-text
- paywalled articles must have an accessible non-paywalled link;
- use the original source whenever possible for a news article.
- Content warnings are required for triggering content.
- Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future.
- before jumping into the community, we encourage you to read examples of common fallacies here.
- if you're asking questions about veganism, be mindful that the person on the other end is trying to be helpful by answering you and treat them with at least as much respect as they give you.
- Posts and comments whose contents – text, images, etc. – are largely created by a generative AI model are subject to removal. We want you to be a part of the vegan community, not a multi-head attention layer running on a server farm.
- Posts linking to Twitter/X or any similar site will be removed.
- No brigading, either off-site or on-site. An incitement to brigade includes two elements: a call to disruptive action and a specific direction outside of this community in which to take that action. Exceptions include:
- Calls to boycott.
- Calls to in-person protest of a government, high-profile individual, or company/organization.
- Votes provided they have a sufficiently broad target audience or provably effective controls against vote brigading.
- Petitions.
- All Lemmy.World Terms of Service also apply.
Resources on Veganism
A compilation of many vegan resources/sites in a Google spreadsheet:
Here are some documentaries that are recommended to watch if planning to or have recently become vegan:
- You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again
- Dominion (2018) (CW: gore, animal abuse)
Vegan Matrix Instance:
Vegan Dating App Veggly
Vegan Fediverse
Lemmy:
Mastodon:
Other Vegan Communities
General Vegan Comms
Circlejerk Comms
Vegan Food / Cooking
!homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org
Debate a Vegan
Vegan Food Scanner
Attribution
- Banner image credit: Jean Weber of INRA on Wikimedia Commons
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
It wouldn't be a hard requirement for me for dating, but they'd need to have empathy and willingness to discuss veganism. Long term id expect them to become vegan, not because of me but because they came to know and believe in the vegan philosophy. I just don't think i could be with someone long term who doesn't value all life the same way as me.
My friend is not vegan and married to a vegan. Somehow they make it work. Their daughter is being raised vegetarian.
Personally I would not be happy with someone who's like aggressively carnivorous. I'm not yet all the way vegan, but someone who was like "I NEED MEAT!!" would be a bad fit for long term relationships.
My long term partners, especially partners I live with, have to be vegan. (And a whole lot of other things too, like being poly and antiauthoritarian leftists.)
I'm a lot less strict about hookups and casual relationships, both because I think sex is more normal that people tend to treat it as, and because my dating pool is incredibly small as-is and I'm too horny to just not fuck.
Yeah, the fact that you can have a single criteria that invalidates about 98% of the world sucks.
In my case, it's more like 3 criteria that each would invalidate 98% of the world :(
Fortunately the overlap is pretty high, but still
I once calculated that I have only about 0.03% of the population that I could even go on a date with (kind of a sad number 🥲)
I calculated based on my country's census looking at veganism, proximity, age, political party, religiousness, marriage status, etc.
If you find places where those people hang out, you'll do a lot better.
Fortunately where I live the queer spaces, anarchist spaces, and vegan spaces feature heavy overlap. So it's not as hard as it might seem. (Still a very small pool though!)
Yeah, that's actually how I met my last partner. We met at a vegan rally
I thought for a long time that i wouldn't care, but now that i found a girlfriend that happened to be vegan and we also share most other opinions, i think i should've cared earlier
No bringing animal products into my home. After the third date, they have to watch Dominion.
If we don't have sex by the third date I'm out
Does it matter to you if they are vegan or not?
No I'd eat them out either way.
Personally I only date for long-term relationships and for those they must be a vegan as well.
In theory I doubt that I would be comfortable to even have a one-night-stand with a non-vegan (including vegetarians)