Furthermore, according to a research by Jim Motavalli in which he examined the contradiction of vegetarianism, he put forward that environmental strategy and priorities are broader and more flexible, while animal rights’ strategy and priorities were narrower and often more alienating in their absolutism. Unlike animal rights advocates, many environmentalists are easier to be satisfied diet-wise if people just collectively reduced meat consumption, rather than a wholly vegan diet. This is because environmentalists, who tend to protect wild animals, are not primarily motivated by sentimentalism or compassion over the suffering of individual non-human animals. He concluded that the environmental movement should begin to more openly acknowledge
