This is the Guardian.

The Guardian Archive Long-Reed.

Hello, my name is George Reynolds.

I'm a freelance food writer and I'm the writer of Wider People Hate Vegan which was published

in October 2019.

I was inspired to write this piece back in 2018 and was at a literary festival and the

guys from Bosch, which is a duo mentioned in the article, Vegan Chefs, was speaking.

And it struck me as sort of wrong and strange that there was this uneven distribution of

people in the world.

Some of them were incredibly focused on being vegan, 100% vegan and some people that

never intentionally eaten something vegan in their lives.

And it felt like it had come out of nowhere and it felt strangely hostile towards it for

reasons I couldn't quite explain.

And then I noticed anti-vegan discourse becoming more mainstream and I realised it wasn't

just me who felt this weird hostility.

So that was a question of digging into why and I was pretty astonished to how deep the

roots went.

I think the interesting thing about how things have changed since then, at the time it was

sort of conservative meat eaters, the end-liberal vegans and that stacked up to me because

vegan as a movement was very much rooted in social justice.

And from a culture point of view since then that veganism has only become more mainstream,

perhaps slightly less exasperating and I think climate emergency is a huge part to play

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