My Research Questions
History
Larger Developmental Context
- When/with whom was the first completely vegan diet?
- Why did animals invade diets?
- How did veganism as a social movement come about?
- Why do people choose to eat/live vegan?
- Is there a future for veganism? Will it become the new standard of living?
Internal History
- How has veganism developed over the years?
- When the terms vegan, vegetarian, lacto/ovo, etc. first occur?
- How has scientific knowledge contributed to diet modifications?
- How have vegan diets changed over the years?
- How have the reasons for living/eating vegan changed over the years?
Structure & Composition
Larger System
- How has the creation of veganism as a movement affect the food industry?
- How did the development of lactose tolerance and agriculture integrate animals into human lifestyles and diets?
- How does living/eating vegan affect the environment?
- How does living/eating vegan affect a person's social/community standing in different environments? Why?
- Why are the rates of veganism/vegatrianism higher in queers?
- What is the relationship between vegans and other demographics? (age, ethnicity, general health, location, upbringing, religion, world view, personality) Why?
Fit together as system
- How do vegans interact with each other?
- Do vegans relate closest with vegans who feel the same as they do?
- How do people's choices to be vegan affect their views of the vegan movement?
- What is the relationship of people who wear/live vegan, eat vegan, or do both? Why?
- Why are there issues like honey? What are the big contentious points of veganism?
Categorization
Groups
- What are the different types of vegan diets/lifestyles?
- Do the diets/lifestyles differ around the world?
- What are the different reasons for being vegan?
- Are vegans viewed (by vegans and/or non-vegans) as different depending on their reasons for becoming vegan? Is this a hieracrchy?
- How do vegans order themselves? Does age or number of years vegan play a role?
Compare & Contrast
- How do vegan lifestyles differ from non-vegan lifestyles?
- Are vegans more consious of non-vegan related surroundings than non-vegans?
- Just how much 'healthier' are strict vegans than lacto/ovo vegetarians and pescatarians?
- How is veganism as a social movement present in other countries/cultures? Why?
- How do strict vegans, lacto/ovos, and pescatarian's differ publicly?
- How do the ideas and lifestyles of vegans by choice and vegans by upbringing C&C?
+ > -
- Why is veganism NOT the norm?
- If veganism is so amazing and friendly, why is everyone NOT vegan?
- Why is it NOT a good idea to become vegan? (What are reasons NOT to become a vegan)
- How is a vegan lifestyle NOT beneficial to people/animals/the planet?
- How has living/eating vegan NOT benefited people (who have tried it)?
Speculation
New Context
- How would the social view/idea of veganism be different if it originally developed in the third world? What if it caught on in the third world today?
- How would veganism play a role in a perfect, liberal USA?
- How would veganism be viewed if the presidential family ate vegan?
- How would veganism as a lifestyle/diet be different if we kept different pets?
- How would vegnaism as a lifestyle/diet be different if agribusiness did not exist and the USA went back to small, family owned farms?
If it Never Existed...
- How would modern food culture be different?
- What would the argument against obesity and other diet related health issues look like without veganism/vegetarianism?
- How would food/diet culture be different?
- How would modern food science be different?
- Would the idea reemerge in the modern social/economic climate?
Sources*
Agree
Disagree
For this part, the book suggests looking at questions and ideas you agree and disagree with from sources. As I am just starting this project, I do not have many sources. I will leave these questions for the future.
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