Do Vegans Have A Duty To Be Fit, Healthy and Strong For The Animals?

To find out, I ran a Twitter poll — here’s the results

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Some time ago, I ran a poll on Twitter which asked the following question:

“Do vegans have a duty to the animals to be fit, healthy and strong in order to serve as positive role models? “

Here are the final results:

As you can see, the majority of people said, no, they don’t think it’s a duty. I found it interesting to read the comments that were left, some of which were posted by long-term, committed, veteran vegans.

Even among this demographic, opinion was divided. There were those who think that, whilst we don’t have a duty to be super-fit athletes, we nevertheless have a responsibility not to allow ourselves to get too overweight or unhealthy by living off junk food.

For example, @VeganPoet wrote:

“We have an obligation to try to eat healthy foods & not let ourselves go. We don’t have to be athletes or super fit, but we have a duty to prove to the world that vegans will thrive. Therefore, we can’t live off processed…