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[dr3upmushroom]

I was just curious if a vegan would ever be voted into office? I feel like we have had milestones of people with various backgrounds reach high levels in government, but for some reason I just can't see a vegan ever becoming president. I feel like a vegan president would just put off many people of all types.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Of all the things voters should think about, I would hope the candidate's diet wouldn't be one of them.

 

[univariate]

What a silly question. The answer is obviously no.

 

[Einchy]

No, vegans are the most persecuted group of people in America.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

There's nothing more American than eating meat.

So no.

 

[TAJ]

Only if they could somehow avoid being that vegan. You know the one.
So basically no.

 

[LegalEagleMike]

Where's the beef?

 

[Puppet Shadow]

I was just curious if a vegan would ever be voted into office? I feel like we have had milestones of people with various backgrounds reach high levels in government, but for some reason I just can't see a vegan ever becoming president. I feel like a vegan president would just put off many people of all types.

There will be one before an atheist president.

 

[Chille]

Il add this here

https://youtu.be/0L2_RvXVMxE

 

[Holmes]

Cory Booker.

 

[cogent]

There will be one before an atheist president.

There have likely been several atheist Presidents.

 

[NYR]

5% of Americans consider themselves Vegans. Nearly 20% are atheists. There is zero chance the US would elect an atheist in the next 12 years IMO so less than zero they would expect a weak veggie eater. Maybe when these useless millennials get to be 40 or 50, things might change.

 

[dispensergoinup]

Most eagles eat fish and meat so probably not.

 

[SodiumBenzoate]

Could a vegan be elected president? Sure.


Could a typical political advocist vegan, who uses their diet to define 80% of their life, politics, and social circle, be elected president? Maybe after a political militant atheist does so. Pretty similar situation.

 

[tearsintherain]

Technically there has been, Bill Clinton became a vegan after all his heart problems but after he left office (he eats some fish so not 100% vegan). If Hillary becomes POTUS as expected, then the first man will be a near-vegan too.

People said a black man can't be president, they said no one will vote for a Mormon and Romney got 47% of the vote, they said a Jew can't run and Sanders got pretty close. End of the day people care less about that shit than people think.

 

[Crayons]

I think a better question is, can someone who eats meat become president?

 

[Zaptruder]

Political Vegan - no.
Person with a vegan diet - yes.

 

[NYR]

There have likely been several atheist Presidents.

Wrong. Agnostic and lazy maybe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

The only case is Lincoln and he never admitted to being one. Assuming one is a conspiracy and should be treated as such - with no facts to back your argument, you might as well call Barack a Kenyan.

 

[Puppet Shadow]

There have likely been several atheist Presidents.

Oh, for sure... but I meant publicly admitting it.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

Someone with just a vegan diet? Sure.

A politically active vegan with that as a common talking point of their lives? Never.

 

[Izuna]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqVmKjam5E

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HeThey would have to make no big deal about it.

 

[NeonBlack]

Hell no, they'll take away all our cows.

 

[Makai]

Ben Carson is a cautionary tale.

 

[zeemumu]

The bill to pardon more than one turkey a year would never pass.

 

[skullmuffins]

Technically there has been, Bill Clinton became a vegan after all his heart problems but after he left office (he eats some fish so not 100% vegan). If Hillary becomes POTUS as expected, then the first man will be a near-vegan too.

I was about to mention Bill. All else being equal, I think someone who switched to a vegan or mostly-vegan diet after some sort of health crisis, like he did, would probably have a much better shot at being elected than someone who was an outspoken vegan for moral or ethical reasons. The beef, chicken, etc. industries probably wouldn't like a president who thought their practice was inherently immoral.

 

[SwiftDeath]

Vegan is at least 5 if not 6 random characteristics above atheist in most likely to be voted in as president so sure eventually

 

[CrazyDude]

They will elect a gay Muslim/atheist communist before a vegan.

 

[Geist-]

Oh, for sure... but I meant publicly admitting it.

It would be interesting if one could announce that either after their reelection or after they're out of office. I'm sure one of the past living presidents are atheist.

 

[Lan Dong Mik]

Dat hipster vote tho

 

[KingBroly]

It depends on how they depict themselves as a Vegan. If they depict as Meat being a despicable evil that has plagued us all, then no way in Hell.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

He/she would constantly bring it up while I am trying to BBQ so no, never.

 

[Couleurs]

They'd never make it past the Iowa primary after their refusal to eat corn dogs leads to mass outrage

 

[cogent]

Wrong. Agnostic and lazy maybe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

The only case is Lincoln and he never admitted to being one. Assuming one is a conspiracy and should be treated as such - with no facts to back your argument, you might as well call Barack a Kenyan.

Of course there is no way to prove it and I'm not going to suggest I have any sort of evidence at all. It doesn't seem entirely unlikely to me that at least one of our past presidents who publicly claim to be a Christian may not actually believe in it. I don't think it's a crazy off the wall thought, given how many people I've met in everyday life who fit the bill.

 

[milkham]

they could if they don't tell anyone, but you know...

 

[nilbog21]

There have likely been several atheist Presidents.

Yeah we've had them since the founding fathers. Seperation of church and State? Cmon..

 

[Makonero]

If you are born on Vega and are therefore a vegan you wouldn't be a natural born citizen of earth, let alone the US, so you wouldn't be eligible for the presidency.

 

[ErnieMcCracken]

Dat hipster vote tho

If they chase that salad w/ a PBR they might take all 50.

 

[Izuna]

Ben Carson is a cautionary tale.

 

[SwiftDeath]

If you are born on Vega and are therefore a vegan you wouldn't be a natural born citizen of earth, let alone the US, so you wouldn't be eligible for the presidency.

Planet Vega actually exists within a dimensional pocket 376 feet below Manhattan so technically all Vega-born individuals are natural born US citiziens, we just don't talk about them all that much.

Now if we were talking about mole people we could argue their eligibility for days

 

[elguero]

Cory Booker 2024?

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Ben Carson was vegan and he lead the polls once, lol.

No one really cared about him not eating meat, but there was a lot of stuff going on with him so maybe it got lost in the shuffle...

 

[NomarTyme]

lol.

 

[Electric Eye]

Yes.

 

[FreezeSSC]

I could see someone like Putin hosting a diplomatic dinner and not offering a vegan option to snide the president.

 

[Dylan Sexbang]

I can see it now, every time the POTUS makes a speech, they have to let us know how they are a vegan. And that we are all cruel for eating animals. And they drive a Prius with pleather because real leather comes from cows. And anytime they eat with a foreign politician, they have to go to vegan restaurants only or complain the whole time how the vegan selection sucks and they can't eat there. Even though it's not that they can't, they won't

Vote up vegans, biggest problem in the universe.

Spoiler

;-;

 

[Electric Eye]

I could see someone like Putin hosting a diplomatic dinner and not offering a vegan option to snide the president.

We sneak our food in anyway because we know.

 

[CrazyDude]

Wrong. Agnostic and lazy maybe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

The only case is Lincoln and he never admitted to being one. Assuming one is a conspiracy and should be treated as such - with no facts to back your argument, you might as well call Barack a Kenyan.

A lot of people who knew Lincoln, especially before he got into politics, remember him questioning the divinity of Jesus and the accuracy of scriptures. So he is probably the president that probably has the most evidence pointing to it.

 

[SneakyStephan]

Only if they would be able to not tell everyone about it every 5 minutes.

So I guess that means no

 

[old manatee]

Obama is a smoker and everyone just acts like he isn't.

I think the hardest thing about being a vegan candidate would be the initial gauntlet of having to campaign through a bunch of weird hick towns where every yokel has a famous pickled hog leg they want to turn into a photo op.

 

[Kid Ska]

Hell no. I need my president to be an All-American Meat Eater like God intended