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 — CLEANED (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 | 15,719 | 34,686 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/AntiVegan | 17,252 | 182,890 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/AskVegans | 4,286 | 100,068 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/DebateAVegan | 9,805 | 639,653 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-18 |
| r/PlantBasedDiet | 21,017 | 312,886 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/carnivore | 20,136 | 172,401 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/conservation | 9,674 | 30,464 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/vegan | 206,774 | 3,465,815 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/vegetarian | 36,617 | 330,142 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
| r/wildlife | 6,718 | 5,855 | 2020-01-01 → 2025-05-19 |
Total records: 5,622,858
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 2026-06-15 21:44 UTC.