Table 5.
Representative quotes associated with animal rights.
| Dimensions | Keywords | Community | Quotes | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal | animal | Pro-vegan | (12) “All mink fur farms to shut in the Netherlands due to COVID-19 outbreaks” | Original post | June 2020 |
| Pro-vegan | (13) “Zoonotic, in this usage of the word, means ‘from animal exploitation’.” | Original post | Sep 2021 | ||
| Pro-vegan | (14) “With the whole coronavirus thing I believe it's a human karma for keeping animals in terrible conditions in wet markets.” | Original post | Feb 2021 | ||
| Anti-vegan | (15) “I used to get grass fed beef, raw milk, and shopped at stores that had ethically raised animals. Due to the pandemic, I can no longer afford these items, as I am most likely loosing my job, and my husband might as well. I am having a lot of ethical issues.. How do I ease my guilt?” | Original post | Oct 2020 | ||
| Anti-vegan | (16) “Almost all beef produced in the US is grass-fed for most of their lives. Meaning they live most of their lives roaming around on a pasture, eating grass. They do not live in a factory. ‘Grass-fed’ really doesn't mean much, because all beef is grass-fed. The difference comes in finishing.” | Comment | Oct 2020 | ||
| Anti-vegan | (17) “Vegan: I hope coronavirus takes out the meat industry. My response: … Do you know just how extensive the meat industry is? It's not just farmers and slaughterhouses. You have geneticists, feed mills, extension specialists, veterinarians, equipment manufacturers, truckers, every single industry that relies on animal byproducts, and thousands of others.” | Original post | May 2020 | ||
| society | Pro-vegan | (18) “Does a widespread practice of using animals in this manner (lab grown meat), as well as a society that continues to eat lots of meat, does this have any psychological side-effects the vegan movement has to worry.” | Comment | Oct 2020 | |
| Pro-vegan | (19) “In the vegan movement, there has been anti-Asian sentiment, regarding dogs, bats, and covid. People have been racist and ignorant regarding Asians, which is a huge problem.” | Original post | Mar 2021 | ||
| Anti-vegan | (20) “Imagine that, a company that sells a shittier version of meat for 5 times the cost loses money in a pandemic where thousands of people lost their jobs.” | Comment | Nov 2020 |