{"id":79455,"date":"2023-10-05T07:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T07:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=79455"},"modified":"2023-10-05T07:44:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T07:44:30","slug":"men-wont-go-vegan-because-they-dont-think-its-manly-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/lifestyle\/men-wont-go-vegan-because-they-dont-think-its-manly-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Men won&apos;t go vegan because they don&apos;t think it&apos;s MANLY, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Men won&#8217;t go vegan because they don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s MANLY, scientists say<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Men are less likely to be vegans because the diet is not seen as masculine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But a\u00a0vegan diet appears less emasculating if it uses more red-blooded language<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Men are less likely to be vegans than women because the diet is not seen as masculine, a study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>There is evidence that men are far less willing than women to give up steaks and barbecues for a trendy vegan diet.<\/p>\n<p>To understand why, researchers asked 539 people to rate four vegan meals on a scale of how suitable they were for men or for women.<\/p>\n<p>The vegan burger, carbonara, goulash and salad were described, on average, as being more appropriate for women to eat than men.<\/p>\n<p>But the study suggests a vegan diet could appear less emasculating for men if it used more red-blooded language.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/16\/70169133-0-A_new_study_has_found_that_the_men_who_love_meat_the_most_also_v-a-79_1696432982827.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Men are less likely to be vegans than women because the diet is not seen as masculine, a study suggests (stock image)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Would YOU pay \u00a330 for vegan ribs? MailOnline tries the world&#8217;s first plant-based rack\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/16\/74822807-12593473-Promo_image_of_Bone_In_Ribs_from_Juicy_Marbles_with_realistic_fl-a-75_1696432005927.jpg\" height=\"188\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>Promo image of &#8216;Bone-In&#8217; Ribs from Juicy Marbles with realistic &#8216;flesh&#8217; and a bonus snack &#8211; edible &#8216;bones&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Half the people in the study were given masculine descriptions of the food, like a &#8216;beast burger&#8217; rather than a &#8216;wow-factor burger&#8217; or a hearty goulash instead of a gourmet one.<\/p>\n<p>The man-friendly descriptions of the food included the words smoky, greasy and juicy, with the burger and carbonara described as coming in a &#8216;massive portion&#8217; for &#8216;even the biggest appetite&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>People given manly descriptions of the vegan meals rated them as less suitable for women than men given neutral descriptions like &#8216;creamy&#8217; and &#8216;delicious&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests more masculine marketing of vegan foods could make them seem less girly.<\/p>\n<p>But even though people saw vegan foods as less feminine when they had masculine names and descriptions, they still rated the meals as slightly more suitable for women than men.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately they were also no more likely to say they would like to eat the vegan meal, would be willing to try it, or thought it would taste good.<\/p>\n<p>Alma Scholz, who led the study from the University of W\u00fcrzburg but is now based at Stockholm University, said: &#8216;Men might be less inclined to consume vegan food due to the need to appear masculine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Perhaps if we used even more masculine language to describe this food, we could make men more willing to eat it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/16\/76165727-0-image-a-91_1696433165579.jpg\" height=\"526\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Figures show that just 3.82 per cent of men are vegan, while almost one in 10 (9.4 per cent) women now follow the diet<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Communication, asked people to rate the suitability of vegan food for men of women from one to seven.<\/p>\n<p>A score of four meant it was not particularly suitable for either sex, with a higher score meaning it was more suitable for men and a score below four meaning it was more suitable for women.<\/p>\n<p>When a burger was described to half the volunteers using neutral words, the average rating was 3.68.<\/p>\n<p>But the rating rose to 3.98 from people, to whom it was described using more masculine words &#8211; meaning it was almost seen as a meal equally suitable for both men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Men appear very sensitive to whether food might make them look like less of a man, based on the study findings.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s ratings of whether vegan food is more suitable for males or females did not significantly change when masculine descriptions were used &#8211; but men&#8217;s did.<\/p>\n<p>The study authors note that meat is culturally associated with strength and masculinity, which might make a vegan diet a hard-sell.<\/p>\n<h3>Switching to plant-based meat can help the environment, experts say<\/h3>\n<p>According to scientists, switching to plant-based products that mimic real meat can help the planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Livestock farming at the current rate hurt the environment in a number of different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Cows, pigs and other farm animals release huge amounts of methane into the atmosphere, which is a greenhouse gas and contributes to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Raising livestock also means converting forests into agricultural land, meaning CO2-absorbing trees are being cut down, further adding to climate change. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/16\/65136075-12575327-Juicy_Marbles_is_just_one_firm_creating_plant_based_vegan_produc-a-60_1696433334753.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"586\"><\/p>\n<p>Juicy Marbles is just one firm creating plant-based vegan products, which are increasingly taking space on the supermarket shelves\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Factory farms and crop growing also requires massive amounts of water, with 542 litres of water being used to produce just a single chicken breast.<\/p>\n<p>As well as this, the nitrogen-based\u00a0fertiliser used on crops adds to nitrous oxide emissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nitrous oxide is around 300 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>These fertilisers can also end up in rivers, further adding to pollution.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Scientists have recently suggested that bringing plant-based meat to public institutions such as schools and 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