What percentage of biologists are vegetarians?!

As I am a Wildlife Biology major I would have to say very few. Most biologists (that I have met anyways) are very pro-controlled/restricted hunting and eat meat and strongly believe in using all of the animal you can (and if you won't use it (like some innards) leaving it somewhere where a scavenger will find it and eat it.

Wildlife Biology major and has attended the Missouri Natural Resource Conference which has a lot of helpful seminars about biology, what biologists in Missouri are working on, and what needs to be done to help a species or the environment

Probably less than 1%, same as the general population.
Most people who go into biology as a career start their lives as omnivores. Becoming a scientist does not have anything to do with deciding not to eat meat.

For example -- I've been an ER nurse for 14 years. Not only am I an omnivore, I've NEVER met a coworker in 14 YEARS who tells people they are vegetarian.
I taught a CNA class this term. 1 of my 20 students was a Pescetarian. ONE.
The first in 14 years.
That should give you a clue.

i'm a biology major but i stopped eating meat way before college and before knowing what i wanted to major in.

I have no idea, interesting question though. let us know if you come across anything that says. I have an idea it is a small percentage though.

I'd say less than 5%.

Just a guess.

I don't see how the two correlate.

There has never been a study done comparing the diets of biologists to other groups, since there is no hypothesis to suggest that it will be meaningful. People tend not to waste their time and money in academic research, so unless they thought of a reason why diet differences will have health outcomes in biologists compared to some other group, they are not going to restrict themselves to comparing biologists to some other group. Instead, they use random samples obtained from the whole population, or in some studies of vegetarians they get vegos to provide information and this is compared to non-vegos in the same towns and cities.

That is not to say that nobody has asked biologists of their diet preferences for interests sake, but if true we would be experiencing something called publication bias. You can only find out about research if it has been published, and research which finds significant differences between the populations they investigate are far more likely to be published than those which don't. So if such a study had been done, it hasn't been published therefore there is no difference in the prevalence of vegetarianism among biologists than the rest of society.

A couple of my professors discussed their vegetarianism during my degree, but that doesn't mean the ones who didn't aren't vego. Nor does it mean the ones who aren't vego do it because they believe it to be harmful. But it did sadden me that more of the ecology academics weren't vego given the evidence that meat production is one of the major threatening processes to global biodiversity.

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Approximately 2-3% (of the regular population) are vegetarians. But honestly I don't think a statistic exists for just biologists. That's kind of random.
Awesome picture by the way. I didn't know we could have animated ones?

One hundred percent