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No satisfaction for meat-eaters
By REBECCA TODD - The Press | Tuesday, 31 July 2007
STACY SQUIRES/The Press
http://www.stuff.co.nz/AAMB4/aamsz=300x44_MULTILINK/4147483a6009.html
NO MEAT AND TWO VEGANS: Christchurch couple Nichola and Hans Kriek are
vegans. While she would not describe herself as a vegansexual, Nichola
Kriek said she could understand people not wanting to get too close to
non-vegan or non-vegetarians.
No sex, please, you're a carnivore.
A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you
eat to the extreme.
Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products,
and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners
whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.
The co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies
at Canterbury University, Annie Potts, said she coined the term after
doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers".
Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the
Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical
Consumers asked 157 people nationwide about everything from battery
chickens to sexual preferences.
Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate
meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because
their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.
"It's a whole new thing
By REBECCA TODD - The Press | Tuesday, 31 July 2007
STACY SQUIRES/The Press
http://www.stuff.co.nz/AAMB4/aamsz=300x44_MULTILINK/4147483a6009.html
NO MEAT AND TWO VEGANS: Christchurch couple Nichola and Hans Kriek are
vegans. While she would not describe herself as a vegansexual, Nichola
Kriek said she could understand people not wanting to get too close to
non-vegan or non-vegetarians.
No sex, please, you're a carnivore.
A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you
eat to the extreme.
Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products,
and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners
whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.
The co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies
at Canterbury University, Annie Potts, said she coined the term after
doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers".
Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the
Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical
Consumers asked 157 people nationwide about everything from battery
chickens to sexual preferences.
Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate
meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because
their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.
"It's a whole new thing