What percentage of US families eat meat and dosent?!

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This is from 2008 study,

"3.2 percent of U.S. adults, or 7.3 million people, follow a vegetarian-based diet. Approximately 0.5 percent, or 1 million, of those are vegans, who consume no animal products at all. In addition, 10 percent of U.S., adults, or 22.8 million people, say they largely follow a vegetarian-inclined diet."

http://www.vegetariantimes.com/features/…

It's better to count individuals rather than families since in many cases some members of a family are vegetarian but not all. And many household are generally omnivorous with only 1 or 2 who are vegetarian. However the figure given by one poster is wrong. It is indeed approximately 3.2% of the whole US population but that is not 7.3million it's 8.9 million. And 0.5% of that is only 44,000, not 1 million. the calculation specifically stated 0.5% of vegetarians, not 0.5% of the US population.

But these figures are mere estimates/guesses since it is impossible to accurately determine adherence to diets/lifestyles. For example, 800 "vegetarians" were surveyed about their diet but it was later found out that 300 of them actually ate fish/seafood and/or poultry at the time of the survey. Hindus, Buddhists, 7th day Adventists etc. may also have been classified as vegetarians because of their religion even if they don't really follow church "rules" on diet. Or that people who said they were not vegetarians at the time of survey but converted later on etc.

"Families" is not the correct way to describe this information. Some families have one vegetarian and six meat eaters. Vegetarians have made up 1-2% of the US population for decades. Obviously the number of vegetarians has gone up since the total population has grown, but I don't think that % has changed much. Even though some posters throw out the 3% number without a reference, so I'll assume it's still 1-2%. If I remember right, the 3% was an online poll, not a reliable estimate at all. But, hey, it's all hype, right? I mean, look at this board. Every day several people announce "I'm veg*n. Tell me what to eat." Anyone can call themselves whatever they want.

Several years ago TIME magazine featured vegetarianism in an issue. It's been a while, but it seems that most of the people who claimed to be vegetarian also said they had eaten some sort of meat within the last week. TIME figured some people think vegetarian means you eat veggies with your steak!

If you care about your children's health and well being, then you will most certainly feed them all kinds of meat.

97% eat meat.