Anyone know the statistics about the vegitarian population?!
Answers: like how many there are in my city, or state?
supposedly the figures for the numbers of vegans and vegetarians are hard to come by, and the statistics are little known outside of the UK and the USA
here are some interesting statistics about vegans/vegetarians in the USA (from 2006)
http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2006issue4/...
here are the statistics for the UK (from wikipedia)
"In 2002, the UK Food Standards Agency reported that 5% of respondents self-identified as vegetarian or vegan. Though 29% of that 5% said they avoided "all animal products", only 5% reported avoiding dairy products.[4] In 2005, The Times estimated there were 250,000 vegans in Britain."
and i suppose i just found some for Australia (from 2000)
http://www.vnv.org.au/Statistics.htm#Aus...
But, i know that 35% of india's population are vegans............
I don't know where you live but I think 5% of the population is a vegetarian/vegan.
I think the closest you get is per country.
India has the highest with like 35% due to reglous (sp) beliefs.
Your best start of information is wiki and then follow the refs in it.
I think its about 1/3 in US now. More everyday since they find out we are also less carnivorous & aggressive if we dont eat meat & can get all protein we need by adding amino acids to veggie diets.!!!
In my city there are about 23%---Delhi (India)
Fewer than most surveys say.
One survey I read said that most (like 90%) of people in U.S. who called themselves vegetarians ate fish of chicken at least once a week. Not very vegtatrian.
So you really can't believe what people say about it.
Maybe I'm a vegetarian because I like eating vegetarian meals? But I do eat lots of dead animal flesh too. Not any worse than dead plants in my view.
In the USA I'd say its way below 10% of the pop'n.
too lazy, too tired or too (fill in the blank) to look it up yourself?As I've said before, many people may be "statistical" vegetarians but by necessity not choice. Those are the people who forage for and eat wild veggies/plants/root crops because of economic reasons but who would otherwise be meat eaters/omnivores if given the choice.
@Iam - data source please? Unless you have some credible source, you are just rumor mongering (or indulging in some very outlandish wishful thinking)
In the US it's under 2%.
Worth question, but there was no satisfying answer when I posted this question before. This may help..
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/statveg.html
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/statveg.html
In term of population, India (Brahmin ethnic) is highest.
In term of percentage, Israel (Jewish) is highest.
The reason for those 2 ethnic groups being vegetarian is unknown, accept both ethnics are still regarded as the smartest and most genius in the world.
The vegetarian society collate research on the number of veggies, try there collection here:
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/statveg.html
Soem trends have to be ignored, such as the move to veggie when BSE, foot and mouth or blue tooth crop up, a lot of those peopel return to meat eating so you have to look at the figures long term
The resports include all sorts of breakdown such as age/sex/demographic/social standing ( ABC's etc )
I don't think that they keep track of that. Usually just by country. The only place you'll get any figures is a veger website though and we all know pro-veger and pro-meater websites aren't credible. Neither is wikipedia.
"I think its about 1/3 in US now."----LOL what?? Try 2-4%.