Online Dating for Vegans
Gleichklang is the leading dating platform for vegan online dating and vegan friendship search in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Vegan projects, vegan communities, and vegan professional collaborations can also be sought and found through vegan dating at Consonance (Gleichklang).
Currently, more than 1,200 vegans are actively searching for a partner and friendships with us. Another 2,000 members state that although they do not currently live vegan, they would like to transition to a vegan lifestyle in a future relationship or friendship.
These are exclusively vegan singles or people looking for vegan friends who have such a serious interest in getting to know others and forming relationships that they have opted for our moderate but mandatory participation fees at Consonance (Gleichklang).:
- Vegan members at Consonance (Gleichklang) are therefore not comparable to members of other dating sites or dating apps who quickly opt for a free option. Because in online dating, the fee requirement is the decisive aspect that distinguishes serious from non-serious relationship searches and real from fake profiles.
If you live vegan and would like to meet another vegan person for a partnership or to find vegan friends while dating, you’ve come to the right place at Consonance (Gleichklang):
Vegan Dating at Consonance (Gleichklang): High Chances for Finding a Vegan Partner and Vegan Friends
Through our unique form of matchmaking for vegans, our members have a great chance of finding a stable and fulfilling loving relationship. The chances are equally high for our vegan members to find lasting friendships, vegan projects, and vegan communities with us.
We have comprehensively evaluated the success rates for vegan dating at Consonance (Gleichklang) (finding a vegan partner, finding vegan friends, vegan communities):
- Vegan members: 33% found a relationship if they didn’t give up for at least one year. 58% found a relationship if they didn’t give up for at least two years. 76% found a relationship if they didn’t give up for at least three years.
We are more than a dating site, vegan dating app, or vegan singles site, but also more than one of the typical matchmaking services. Our unique selling point is that in online dating, we can rely on both a well-founded matchmaking based on the compatibility of life principles and the consideration of the vegan lifestyle.
Participation in our dating platform is interesting for vegan singles looking for a relationship with another vegan person or a person with a positive attitude towards veganism.
However, dating at Consonance (Gleichklang) is also intended for vegans who are already in a relationship and would like to find vegan friendships, vegan projects, vegan communities, or professional collaborations with other vegans.
Principles of Vegan Dating
We analyzed the search settings of 9,336 vegan singles and former members. It becomes very clear that most vegan singles want to share the vegan lifestyle with their future partners. In their search for a partner, vegan singles typically value the consideration of their vegan lifestyle. At Consonance (Gleichklang), we have made this the foundation of our dating platform with its matchmaking and friendship matching.
Vegan singles have the following options for their partner search, which they can set as search criteria for their dating — analogous options exist for finding friends:
- exclusively vegan partner suggestions
- exclusively vegetarian or vegan partner suggestions. Read also our dating tips for vegan singles or our dating tips for vegetarian singles
- vegan partner suggestions or non-vegan partner suggestions where the person says they would like to live vegan in the future.
- vegan or vegetarian partner suggestions or also suggestions of people who would like to become vegetarian or vegan in the future.
- all partner suggestions, regardless of whether the people live vegan or vegetarian or want to become so.
The results of our evaluation of the search criteria of our vegan members who are still single and looking for a relationship show the following:
- Four out of five vegan singles looking for a relationship with us (79%) do not want to receive partner suggestions from people who are neither vegan nor vegetarian and will continue to eat meat in the future. More than half of the vegan singles looking for a partner with us (55%) could imagine starting a relationship with a meat-eating person if they want to live vegan (46%) or at least vegetarian (9%) in the future.
- More than two out of three vegan singles looking for a partner with us (64%) value their partners ultimately finding their way to a vegan lifestyle. For the majority of vegans at Consonance (Gleichklang), it is therefore not enough if their partners live vegetarian permanently; they wish for a shared veganism in a relationship. Furthermore, for 64% of vegan singles, but only for 8% of vegetarian singles, it is necessary that the partner becomes vegan or already is. However, they are open to processes of change if their partners want to go this path together with them.
Finding Vegan Friends
We also conducted a survey on friendships among vegans. The results showed the following:
- Over 90% of the vegans surveyed stated that they also have non-vegan friends.
- 75% of those with non-vegan friends expressed the hope that their friends would become vegan. 63% wished for vegan friends. Likewise, 63% thought that at least vegetarian would be easier than meat-eaters. 52% reported that they tried to convince their non-vegan friends of the vegan lifestyle.
- 47% of respondents reported that their friends’ meat consumption psychologically burdens them. 39% stated that this leads to conflicts.
It becomes clear that vegan friendships can help reduce stress and build more satisfaction. Most vegans have non-vegan friends, but if they also have vegan friendships, they will feel more socially supported and satisfied. That is why we at Consonance (Gleichklang) also offer the possibility to search for vegan friends.
Ethical-Moral Convictions and Online Dating
For most vegan singles, a current or future vegan diet and lifestyle of their partners is important. Accordingly, they base their partner search on vegan nutrition or willingness as an important criterion. For vegans, partner search in this sense usually means finding suitable people with whom they can live vegan together. Dating that does not consider veganism is therefore not very promising for vegan singles.
Why do vegan singles look for other vegans for their love relationships?
The reason lies in the ethical justification of veganism, which is shared by the vast majority of all vegans. The vegan lifestyle is justified by a profound moral conviction that humans should reduce suffering of humans and animals and not cause it. Vegans therefore experience the exploitation, killing, and consumption of animals as immoral and ethically unjustifiable. With their vegan lifestyle, they want to make such a contribution to a world with less suffering.
The vegan lifestyle is highly formative for everyday life because nutrition and clothing are our constant companions. Vegans wish to share their ethical commitment to a less painful world in relationships and to advocate for it in relationships. This results in the desire for likewise vegan partners in online partner search.
In addition to animal ethics, ecological ethics also play a significant role for vegans. New studies show that the global switch to a vegan diet could postpone climate change until the end of the century. Other studies show that the vegan lifestyle is the single biggest step people can take towards an environmentally friendly lifestyle. Vegans emphasize our responsibility for the climate and our environment and want to contribute to ending the destruction of the natural foundations of life on our planet through the vegan lifestyle.
Veganism is a moral-social movement, philosophy, and life practice that places respect for life, empathy, perspective-taking, and compassion at the forefront of human striving and action. For vegans, therefore, misanthropy, animal contempt, and environmental destruction have no place in their everyday lives and relationships. After all, they have usually adopted the vegan lifestyle because they want to end the billions of suffering of exploited farm animals, stop climate change, and replace egoism and cruelty with humanity and compassion.
The focus on avoiding avoidable suffering leads vegans to also advocate for compassion and humanity regarding people. For example, a survey by vegan.eu showed that vegans are committed not only to animals but also for example to refugees and war victims, the hungry, and exploited people. The vast majority of vegans stand for diversity and acceptance, against discrimination against homosexuals, bisexuals, non-binary people. Veganism opposes racism, right-wing populism, and right-wing extremism and strives for a world in which everyone is respected and honored with their needs, as long as they also respect and honor the needs of others.
Psychology of Vegan Dating
Vegans want a vegan dating experience where they meet vegan people or people who want to become vegan in order to form relationships with each other. We have implemented this form of vegan online dating and vegan partner search at Consonance (Gleichklang) since our founding in 2006. From the very beginning, this has set us apart from mainstream dating apps, dating sites, singles sites, or matchmaking agencies where vegan dating is not possible.
What are the more precise psychological reasons why it is of great importance for vegans in online partner search that their vegan lifestyle is taken into account?
- Vegans want to have happy relationships. However, they can achieve this better together with other vegans, also because they want to advocate for the vegan lifestyle in everyday life. In a survey, we found that vegans together with vegan partners actually achieve significantly higher relationship satisfaction and relationship stability than vegans who live with meat-eaters (omnivores). Even a large majority of vegans who had meat-eating partners stated that they would prefer a partnership with a vegan person.
We also asked the vegans surveyed to give reasons why they want a relationship with another vegan. We qualitatively analyzed the resulting texts and were able to identify six central reasons why vegans hope to meet other vegans in online dating and partner search:
- Everyday life becomes easier: Shopping, eating, cooking, social contacts are facilitated by shared veganism.
- Shared ethics are important: Shared veganism is a shared ethic that is experienced as forming and bonding affection.
- More harmony: Conflicts are reduced and better conversations are possible.
- Further development of the vegan lifestyle: With vegan partners, new things in the vegan field could be discovered, partners could better protect each other from temptations and relapses, and shared commitment and activism for the vegan lifestyle would be possible.
- Protection from annoyance and disgust: There are no animal products in the refrigerator and partners would not have to watch the loved one consume animals. Disgust when kissing and showing affection would also be eliminated.
- Family planning and child-rearing: Shared family planning and vegan nutrition for children become easier.
These results are plausible and psychologically immediately comprehensible:
- High relationship satisfaction arises when a good everyday life together is possible, core values are shared, conflicts are solvable and not destructive, those involved can develop together, physical closeness is possible without annoyance or disgust, and there is agreement on family planning and child-rearing.
The desire of vegans for likewise vegan partners is therefore psychologically sensible. If vegans align their online dating and partner search vegan, they have higher chances of experiencing fulfillment and satisfaction in their future relationship.
Vegans are confronted daily with the exploitation of animals and the destruction of our planet through livestock farming. This is psychologically stressful. People who have strong ethical convictions that conflict with the majority around them can benefit from love relationships and also friendships with like-minded people that are a space for recovery and protection to achieve psychological balance.
It is also psychologically understandable that most vegans include non-vegan people in their partner search who have already stated that they would like to become vegan:
- The decisive point here is the agreement in ethical basic attitude and the willingness to change. If a relationship develops with these people, the transition to a vegan lifestyle will usually succeed. Read also our dating tips for vegan singles.
Psychological Dating Platform for Vegans
At Consonance (Gleichklang), we have taken these and other psychological insights to heart and built a dating platform that offers vegan singles high chances of success in their partner search and vegans in relationships in their search for vegan friendships and vegan projects. In matchmaking and friendship matching, we bring like-minded people together and consider shared veganism as an important matching criterion in online dating.
This enables lasting and happy relationships as well as friendships and vegan communities. Because similar principles apply to friendships and communities as to partnerships. Here too, the fundamental agreement in moral values and in life practice is of central importance.
Consonance (Gleichklang) Supports the Vegan Lifestyle
The vegan matching option in our online dating serves not only effective matchmaking and friendship matching but is also intended to further promote the spread of veganism.
Alone the offering of differentiated search options leads members to think about their lifestyle. They become aware that they want to change, and thus indicate, for example, that they would like to become vegan. In their search for a partner and friends, we will now suggest people to them with whom they can implement this change together.
In the course of Consonance’s now 19-year history, many members have found their way to a vegan diet and lifestyle. Time and again we have also heard about vegan weddings, new vegan patchwork families, and children of Consonance (Gleichklang) couples who are raised vegan. But vegan companies and projects have also already been initiated by Consonance (Gleichklang) members.
We continuously inform all our members about the vegan lifestyle and run the portal vegan.eu to advocate for education about the possibility and necessity of the vegan lifestyle.
Vegan members of Consonance (Gleichklang) can be sure to use a platform for their online dating that identifies with the vegan lifestyle and does everything in its power and strength to contribute to the spread of the vegan lifestyle and thus for a better world. At the same time, we thus enable new happiness in life for many members because through participation in vegan dating with us, they succeed in making their partner search and friendship search successful.
Looking for a Vegan Partner or Vegan Friends?
Vegan members decide for themselves whether they want to restrict their search solely to other vegans in the sense of a vegan partner search. It is also possible to search more broadly, for example, to also include people who are not yet vegan but would like to become vegan in the future.
Many vegan members also include vegetarians in their search, especially since vegetarians are more likely to evolve vegan in the future.
Another search option in our online dating is to set as a selection criterion the search for a relationship in which partners want to work together for nature conservation and animal welfare or animal rights. However, there are also vegan members who do not initially restrict their search at all.
We are more than a vegan dating app or a vegan dating site, as we additionally have a comprehensive psychological matching approach that helps our members meet the right people. We also offer extensive member support. In addition to green dating and vegan matchmaking and friendship matching, we at Consonance (Gleichklang) place particular value on diversity and inclusion.
Vegan Online Dating with Diversity and Inclusion
We are a dating platform that, in addition to veganism, wholeheartedly commits to diversity and inclusion. We place these principles at the center of our online matchmaking and friendship matching:
- We support members with all legitimate sexual orientations and all gender identities in their search for a partner and friends. All genders and gender identities are welcome with us: women, men, non-binary individuals, transgender, and intersex individuals participate in the vegan partner and friendship search with us. Heterosexuals as well as queer and genderqueer individuals participate in our vegan relationship search. At Consonance (Gleichklang), homosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, skoliosexual, omnisexual and multisexual, asexual, and sapiosexual vegans meet.
- Likewise, effective matchmaking and friendship matching for our members with disabilities, handicaps, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, sexual dysfunctions, HIV, or autism is close to our hearts. Following the matching principle of acceptance, we strive for suitable suggestions and effective encounters so that we can also bring the partner search of our vegan members with disabilities, chronic physical illnesses, or mental illnesses to success.
Our vegan dating site and contact exchange has nothing to do with exclusion or isolation. Rather, it is our conviction that it is legitimate and understandable if vegan singles and those seeking friendships would like to get to know other vegans as partners, friends, or project partners precisely because a congruence of values connects.
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