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Veganism doesn’t have a left or right bias on its own and I don’t think people who make veganism their identity in this way can be arbitrarily aligned like that.
Studies consistenly show that left leaning people have greater empathy.
Source: https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/18/1/nsad029/7175525?login=false
Studies have also shown that both vegetarians and vegans are more likely to have higher empathy than omnivores and are more likely to be left leaning politically.
Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.579700/full
So yes veganism does have a bias, or rather people are inherently biased and will gravitate towards sociopolitical movements based on their personality, which includes the strength of their empathy response.
Full disclaimer; I'm an omnivore lurker being poked fun at in the OP
That’s not what I said though.
Vegans come in all shapes and colors, some of them are even totally normal people who won’t get wild on you for not being vegan.
That said veganism inherently isn’t a left or right idea, it may attract folks from a certain side but I think your point is the reason there not that veganism itself is a specific bias.
Sorry I am having difficulty parsing this.
I believe that veganism is inherently tied to political beliefs based on biological factors which influence both politics and empathy response, which is highly correlated with vegan/vegetarian diets.