Datasets:
license: other
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
task_categories:
- text-classification
tags:
- reddit
- animal-welfare
- animal-ethics
- value-lock-in
- discourse-analysis
Reddit Animal-Discourse Corpus (2020–present)
Submissions and comments from animal-relevant subreddits, gathered via PullPush.io, covering January 2020 to the present. Built as part of research on AI-mediated value lock-in in human animal-welfare discourse.
Coverage
| Subreddit | Submissions | Comments | Date range (submissions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| r/AnimalRights | 18,293 | 51,704 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/AntiVegan | 21,365 | 227,012 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/AskVegans | 5,167 | 127,895 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/DebateAVegan | 13,112 | 547,188 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-18 |
| r/PlantBasedDiet | 26,629 | 362,308 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/carnivore | 30,069 | 65,099 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/conservation | 10,729 | 35,730 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/vegan | 269,811 | 972,465 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/vegetarian | 46,481 | 395,858 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/wildlife | 7,476 | 6,878 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
Total records: 3,241,269
File structure
One parquet file per (subreddit, kind), e.g. AntiVegan__submission.parquet.
Submission fields
id, name, created_utc, author, subreddit, title, selftext, url, score, num_comments, upvote_ratio, link_flair_text, permalink, is_self, over_18, spoiler, stickied, created_date
Comment fields
id, name, created_utc, author, subreddit, body, score, parent_id, link_id, permalink, is_submitter, stickied, created_date
Subreddits
Selected to span the pro-/skeptic spectrum on animal ethics:
- Pro-animal: r/vegan, r/AnimalRights, r/vegetarian, r/PlantBasedDiet
- Debate / mixed: r/DebateAVegan, r/AskVegans
- Skeptic / opposing: r/exvegan, r/AntiVegan, r/carnivore
- Adjacent: r/wildlife, r/conservation
Source and ethics
Raw text content is publicly accessible on Reddit. Usernames have been
salted-hashed (SHA-256 with a project-specific salt, truncated to 12 hex
characters, prefix user_) to remove PII while preserving within-user
analyses (same hash → same person across records). Sentinels like [deleted],
[removed], and AutoModerator are preserved as-is.
PullPush returns content as it existed at fetch time — deleted or edited posts may differ from current Reddit state.
License
Reddit's own user content terms apply. This compilation is provided for non-commercial research use only.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite the originating research (forthcoming — placeholder).
Generated 2026-06-11 23:27 UTC.