== Richard Dawkins and veganism ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and veganism]] and [[New Atheism and veganism]] and [[Richard Dawkins and on veganism]]
At the present time, the new atheist [[Sam Harris]] is the only notable new atheist who has become a [[vegetarian]].<ref name="salonvegan">[https://www.salon.com/2016/01/09/new_atheists_must_become_new_vegans_sam_harris_richard_dawkins_and_the_extra_burden_on_moral_leaders/ New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders], ''Salon'', 2016</ref> Harris said he "aspires" to be a vegan.<ref name="salonvegan"/>
The new atheist [[Richard Dawkins]] stated about vegetarianism/veganism:
{{Cquote|[It] leaves me in a very difficult moral position… I think you have a very strong point when you say that anybody who eats meat has a very strong obligation to think seriously about it and I don’t find any good defense. I find myself in exactly the same position as you or I would have been, well probably you wouldn’t have been but I might have been, two hundred years ago […] talking about slavery… I think what I’d really like to see is people like you having a far greater effect on, I would call it, consciousness raising and trying to swing it around so it becomes the societal norm not to eat meat.<ref name="salonvegan"/>}}