Hi my brother you became a vegetarian, I wonder what motivates him.
Perhaps vegetarianism is his form of animal rights advocacy.
So it must be some kind of a new ideological movement ?
Animal rights do seem to be a relatively new phenomenon. The term speciesism was only created in 1970.
Was it started by hippies ?
It probably was. Most of these modern delicate sensibilities originated with the hippe counterculture in the 1960's.
But what happened later, when counterculture was losing steam, does it mean that vegetarianism was less popular in the eighties?
I think the counterculture died when hippies became part of mainstream society. What do you think the counterculture is today?