Vegan stereotypes: In defence of the preachy vegan!

Soy boys, militants, social justice warriors, hypocrites, bleeding hearts, hippies… stereotypes abound when people talk about vegans!  In today’s show, Lottie, Nick and Hayden tackle these vegan stereotypes. We talk about what truth some of these stereotypes have and what they get wrong.  In terms of how this can influence our animal justice activism, we discuss a model of attitude change from social psychology (the Elaboration Likelihood Model) which can explain why these stereotypes might influence people’s views of vegans. We also discuss two concepts stemming from the USA civil rights movement: diversity of tactics and the positive radical flank effect.  A takeaway is that pick-me and preachy vegans alike can work together towards our common cause of animal liberation!  Listen to other podcasts that inspired this topic: – Freedom of Species: Is Veganism a Cult? https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/veganism-cult – Sounds Like a Cult: The Cult of Veganism https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1319-sounds-like-a-cult-82627527/episode/the-cult-of-veganism-94176135/  Explainers: Elaboration Likelihood Model: https://www.simplypsychology.org/elaboration-likelihood-model.html Diversity of tactics: https://everything.explained.today/Diversity_of_tactics/#Ref-5 Radical flank effect: https://everything.explained.today/%5C/Radical_flank_effect/  A scholarly review article showing evidence of positive radical flank effects across movements: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42087-025-00485-y#ref-CR18  Music: Animal Liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ Can’t Win by PUP. Baby Rats by MU330. Soy Boy by Djupa Dvala.

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