There are several ways in which people can relate to eating or not eating animals. This essay is focussing two main strategies: Making distances and drawing borders.Today, there are several reasons for not eating meat, including environmental reasons, individual and public health reasons, ethical reasons and more. Yet, people eat more meat than ever. According to the UN, this is a major problem. In 2006 the report Livestock?s long shadow pointed out that meat consumption was a bigger problem from an environmental point of view, than global transports, including air-traffic.

Att bara leva på livsmedel från växtriket är en gammal företeelse, men begreppet vegan för de som bara äter vegetabilier myntades först 1944. Man kan välja att bli vegan av etiska, miljömässiga, hälsomässiga och ekonomiska skäl, samt att valet av kost även kan vara ett uttryck för identitet. Syftet med studien är att belysa de problem som kan uppstå, för individen, till följd av en vegansk kosthållning och livsstil samt att lyfta fram de resonemang som visar hur dessa problem hanteras. Forskningsprocessen utgick ifrån grundad teori och data i form av intervjuer och observationer samlades in. Sex veganer intervjuades och tio restaurangmenyer observerades i syfte att hitta problem och lösningar.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate the subject field of male vegans and masculinities through empirical method interviews and narrative analysis. The starting-point for this essay is animal ethics, feminist ethic vegetarianism and theories that suggest that eating meat is one part of the social construction of masculinities. The problem formulation is such as follows:How do male vegans construct masculinity? In an attempt to answer such a question there are three problem formulations:What do male vegans think about the connection between manhood and eating meat?How do male vegans relate to the norms in society?What do male vegans think of stereotype conceptions about vegans?I will come to the conclusion that male vegans think that eating meat, as well as drinking beer, is one part of the social construction of masculinities. Male vegans are aware of norms in the surroundings and the strong attachment of meat normativity in the western culture.