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<\/a><\/p>\nIn my publication<\/a> with Environmental Values<\/em>, I explore some interesting, if unintended findings from an earlier survey<\/a> of nearly 300 American vegans I conducted in March of 2017. When asked to report their religious affiliation, 55% reported that they were atheist and 18% reported some variation of agnosticism. Nearly 3\/4th of my sample, in other words, did not identify as religious.<\/p>\n Although I did not conduct interviews to qualify this relationship, some interesting correlations did emerge. Atheists were considerably more likely to report having gone vegan for ethical, anti-speciesist reasons when compared to agnostics and other religious groups. Atheists were more left-leaning politically, as well. Both atheists and agnostics were more likely to be intersectionally minded and involved in a variety of social movements beyond veganism.<\/p>\n Although women and people of color in the survey were more likely to report feeling alienated or unwelcome in the movement, atheists did not (the majority of female, male, non-binary, white, Black, Latinx, and Asian folks reported no religious affiliation). I suspect that atheist vegans avoid this stigmatization for their non-belief primarily due to the silence around atheism in American culture, and, more specifically, the American vegan movement.<\/p>\n With non-believers dominating the vegan movement, this begs the question as to why movement leaders do not actively engage the atheist community. Presumably, this demographic would be especially receptive to veganism. I suspect that the severe stigma of atheism in the United States likely accounts for this. Movement leaders may be hesitant to add to the stigma already associated with veganism.<\/p>\n You can read the entire article here<\/a>, free of charge. Readers can learn more about vegan atheism in my 2016 publication, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights<\/em><\/a>. Receive research updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to my newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my publication with Environmental Values, I explore some interesting, if unintended findings from anContinue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58,35,78,9,16],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-activism","tag-atheism","tag-identity","tag-intersectionality","tag-veganism"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/www.coreyleewrenn.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.coreyleewrenn.com\/feed\/podcast\/corey-lee-wrenn-ph-d","embedCode":"
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\n<\/p>\nAtheists and Agnostics Largest ‘Religious’ Demographic in Animal Rights<\/a><\/blockquote>