I am curious whether it implies causation or just correlation. I can easily explain it away with correlation. Most likely vegans will be people who are quite at

I am curious whether it implies causation or just correlation. I can easily explain it away with correlation. Most likely vegans will be people who are quite attuned to somebody else's (including animal) suffering. And the same empathy my guess would cause a higher level of anxiety. (All of this obviously, my guesses and I don't have any data to prove it)