Are some cultures more likely to be vegetarians/vegans versus others? why?!
Also what culture is most "NOT" likely to be vegetarian/vegan?
Answers: Apart of the Indian culture, (which has a higher population of vegetarians), what other cultures are more likely to be vegetarian / vegan?
Also what culture is most "NOT" likely to be vegetarian/vegan?
Richer countries eat more meat. Asia and Africa have lower meat consumption per capita, due to poverty, but not necessarily more people that are fully vegetarian (except India).
The eskimos are the only culture I can think of that are pretty much meat-only.
Also what culture is most "NOT" likely to be vegetarian/vegan? some people from Argentina ....they have a high demand of meat imports...
The West is more likely NOT to be veggie, a lot of places in Africa are.
African tribes people tend to be vegetarian, and also vegan in most cases, due to the lack of pasture for animals to graze on. They tend to get there protein from grains, which stores easily in hot temperature, compared with meat which rots easily.
Any culture that has lots of grazing land such as new zealand will be less likely to be vegitraians as they have a wealth of land to keep animals therefore the availability of fresh meat at a good price will be a desiding factor.
Some tribes in Africa as well as communities of Bhuddists/Jains around the world are more likely to be veg/vegan. Many African Tribes rely on beans, corn, and grains.
The least likely to be veg/vegan are those who live in extreme northern latitudes such as Inuit, Alask Natives, Greenlanders, Sami, etc. because most of the year they have snow on the ground. They eat a diet almost entirely made up of animals.
The far north cultures are mostly meat eaters.
Hindus don′t eat meat, which makes most of India vegetarian. Veganism would tend to be a luxury of an advenced society where someone has broad choices of what they can eat and survive. vegetarianism too to some degree i guess.
particularly carnivorous cultures would certainly be people living where plant life struggles, eg, in the arctic circle, the desert.
The UK, where I live is full of meat lovers. But I am veggie.
Buddhists don't eat meat, it is seen as more compassionate.
Hindus of course are most likely. Islams and Jews don't eat pork. Mostly in the West it is my choice, not culture. Most cultures that hunt or raise livestock are more likely to eat what they kill or raise.
Yes, because of religion or availability of food.
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European countries and Russia are probably heavily meat eaters. A lot of Scandinavian countries are very heavily into fishing and they eat a lot of fish.
Some groups for religious or traditional reasons. Hindus and Buddhists and Jains were traditionally mostly vegetarian. It doesn't hold true nowadays though. A lot of Hindus are non-vegetarian - the only thing they draw the line at is eating cattle.
Nominal Buddhists in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, etc.) eat a lot of fish, plus other animals occasionally (mostly pigs and fowl). Some will go vegetarian for a day or a week or a month at a time, probably for purification purposes.
A lot of Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarians - I think it is more for health reasons, rather than for religious reasons.
As to those least likely to be vegetarian, the obvious ones are Argentinians, Inuit, Muslims, Australian Aborigines, Lapps, Serbians, Rednecks, Graziers, Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, Mormons. Probably a few others I'll think of after I hit Submit.
higher the standard of living the more likely a culture is to be vegetarian also the more urban the less likely to be vegetarian. least likely to be vegetarian are the cultures living near the Arctic circle Eskimo Lapp etc.
I only know that the girl who answered first is kind of right. I'm from Argentina and I'm the only vegetarian I know, and, for most people, vegetarianism is not even considered a possibility/an alternative. It may be because the meat industry is a huge deal here, there are plenty of fields for the cows to graze and therefore cows are sort of free-range. I also noticed that latin american countries are more reticent than european ones or the US when it comes to accept a vegetarian diet.
It depends on how they are bought up and their life decisions.
Asians in general tend to be vegetarians more. Not only do many of their religions believe in reincarnation or compassion towards ALL living things, they also have diets high in fruits and vegetables, which allows them to be more creative with their dishes, as well as with their cooking techniques.
Sure, there are many vegetarian societies and cultures, or primarily vegetarian societies.
One of the most unique people in the world (with an incredibly long lifespan) are the Hunza people (who are a very remote society in the Himalayan Mountains, who have lived in virtual isolation for nearly 2,000 years and were only discovered within the last century).
They eat a largely raw diet, and meat accounts for LESS than 1% of their calorie intake (they eat meat for religious ceremonies only or extremely special occasions, many do not eat meat at all; it plays mostly a ceremonial part, like a Catholic's communion wafer - mostly dietarily insignificant). Their diet consists of mostly raw fruits and vegetables, sprouted grains, nuts and seeds and very occasionally they will have raw goat milk and goat milk products. They tend to their animals with great reverence. The Hunza people's lifespan regularly exceeds 100 years or more and they are extremely healthy and energetic people.