Are you strictly dating vegans? Maybe you are open to dating vegetarians? Maybe you view it as a personal choice and you don’t mind dating non-vegans?
Does the goal of the relationship change your answer? If it is a long-term relationship, or a short-term one, or a casual one, or friends-with-benifitis or even a one-night-stand?
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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
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
No bringing animal products into my home. After the third date, they have to watch Dominion.
I’d date a vegan if I could find one!
Yeah, I count myself lucky to find a loving partner without the added restriction of them being vegan. But my household is almost exclusively vegan.
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.
#1 Be vegan.
End of list.
Never dated a non-vegan since becoming one myself (~10ish years). I tried dating a few vegetarians but during the first date they always order cheese and I lose all interest. Never had a 2nd date with any of 'em.
Course I’m married now so it’s more of a theoretical requirement. 😅
I’m omnivorous (currently), but if my partner were vegan, I’d probably go vegan too eventually, especially if they wanted me to. So maybe you can even convert somebody
Don’t you think that that is a terribly unhealthy expectation to come in to a relationship with?
I think there are people out there who would be willing to go vegan but haven’t found a good reason to yet. As in they know that it’s a good thing to do and they don’t have weird attachments to animal products, but also don’t mind consuming them. From the perspective of someone who still eats meat (me), going vegan seems daunting with all the habit changes and possible health issues and whatnot, but with a good nudge from someone, they might make the switch.
That is, of course, hard to know about someone beforehand, but you can just ask. I, for one, wouldn’t mind the question “Would you be willing to go vegan?” (and would probably answer with yes), at least not any more than “Are you vegan?”.
I don’t know, maybe that’s just me though…
