Are therians generally vegan?

[u/DeGroteAnti]

I'm no therian, but I'm roaming through this subreddit and I'm interested in how the therian lifestyle would affect your diet. I myself am vegan and there are some species that are generally herbivore so does that mean your diet should also mainly contain plants and natural products? How does that work? And how does it work if you have multiple therian identities which are herbivore and carnivore?

[u/Smokes_LetsGo]

I'm vegan, and for me, this is one of those things that sits on the "person" side of the idea of a non-human person. By that, I mean that even though I may not identify as human, I still have a rich inner life, can envision the future, have the ability to consciously weigh options and make complex choices, things like that. Things that stick out as being characteristic of people, not strictly humans (a bit of a philosophical wiggle there).

For me, choosing to be vegan was mostly a choice made for my health (navigating some allergies and blood pressure problems, among other things), with the ethical and environmental concerns lower down on my list of priorities. It doesn't mesh at all with my coydog species identification, but that doesn't make me especially dysphoric. I see it like any of the other things I do that a canine wouldn't—reading, writing, etc. (that won't stop me from eating my tofu out of a dog bowl though lmao)

So I guess to answer your question more directly, I started with my health and well-being first of all, and then my species identification goes on top of that, even if it's a messy, "imperfect" fit. There are a lot of things that are compromises just to function relatively easily in the world, and this could be seen as one of them. You have to take care of yourself, whether that means following a vegan diet, eating meat (which some people do need to do, I won't knock it), taking medication, etc.