What this study describes reeks of survivorship bias, and doesn’t really support the title IMO. People who think its easy (and worthwhile) become vegan/vegetarian, those who think its hard won’t - duh. How hard it is depends considerably on how much someone likes plant-based food (especially the food they cook themselves) and how easy their access is (e.g. some people don’t even have a kitchen, live with nazis, or don’t have any restaurants selling proper vegan meals in their area).
About 69% of plant-based students identified as far left, left or centre left, compared with about 48% of omnivores. Around 11.5% of plant-based students identified as centre right, right or far right, compared with about 23% of omnivores.
TBH that’s a lot more “balanced” than I thought. I bet those numbers would look much more biased to the left if it was only looking at vegans.
I just have a hard time imagining a basically unpolitical person embracing a plant-based diet. IDK how this works in Brazil, but generally rightwingers don’t tend to be subtle about embracing meat-eating and rejecting veganism. How do you even get the idea that meat-eating is bad without coming into contact with any political discourse? Obviously some people are going to arrive at that idea on their own, I just assumed that it would be a lot fewer than this study indicates.