Are you strictly dating vegans? Maybe you are open to dating vegetarians? Maybe you view it as a personal choice and you don’t mind dating non-vegans?
Does the goal of the relationship change your answer? If it is a long-term relationship, or a short-term one, or a casual one, or friends-with-benifitis or even a one-night-stand?
My long term partners, especially partners I live with, have to be vegan. (And a whole lot of other things too, like being poly and antiauthoritarian leftists.)
I’m a lot less strict about hookups and casual relationships, both because I think sex is more normal that people tend to treat it as, and because my dating pool is incredibly small as-is and I’m too horny to just not fuck.
Yeah, the fact that you can have a single criteria that invalidates about 98% of the world sucks.
In my case, it’s more like 3 criteria that each would invalidate 98% of the world :(
Fortunately the overlap is pretty high, but still
I once calculated that I have only about 0.03% of the population that I could even go on a date with (kind of a sad number 🥲)
I calculated based on my country’s census looking at veganism, proximity, age, political party, religiousness, marriage status, etc.
If you find places where those people hang out, you’ll do a lot better.
Fortunately where I live the queer spaces, anarchist spaces, and vegan spaces feature heavy overlap. So it’s not as hard as it might seem. (Still a very small pool though!)
Yeah, that’s actually how I met my last partner. We met at a vegan rally