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JeffN wrote:"Similarly, 6% of US consumers now claim to be vegan, up from just 1% in 2014."
The important word here is, claim!
JeffN wrote:So, depending on which definition you used, you could say that 20-50% of the population claimed to be vegetarian/vegan, though the actual amount of people eating no flesh was only 2.5% and no animal products 1.5%. Huge difference. This reminds me of how, recently, I was sitting at a dinner party listening to two people near me, not knowing who I was, discussing their vegan diets while consuming their (real) chicken salads.
It is common to claim to be part of a trend, whether you are or not.
.JeffN wrote:This is from the most recent 2016 poll:
"According to a nationwide poll in 2016, approximately 3.3% of American adults are vegetarian or vegan (never eat meat, poultry, or fish), and about 46% of vegetarians are vegan (1.5%)."
Here are the results of all the surveys from 1994 to 2016:
1) The VRG has been conducting & collecting surveys and organizing the results for a long time and the results this year are virtually the same as many years ago. You can see the prior survey results at the link at the bottom of the article. We consistently see about 3-5% are vegetarian and about 1-1.5% are true dietary vegans.
http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/Polls/2016_adults_veg.htm
Here are the numbers for each year's poll, who conducted the poll, and the number of subjects polled. I would recommend reading the above site for the details on each poll as it helps to put any changes in perspective. There is also a +/-3% margin of error, so any of these changes could really just be mostly noise.
1994. Roper. (1,978)
1% Veg
? Vegan
1998. Roper (1,960)
1% Veg
? Vegan
2000 Zogby (968 adults)
2.5% Veg
0.9% Vegan
2003 Harris (1,031 adults)
2.8% Veg
1.8% Vegan
2006 Harris (1,000 adults)
2.3% Veg
1.4% Vegan
2009 Harris (2,397)
3.4% Veg
.8-1.3% Vegan
2011 Harris (1,010)
5% Veg
2.5% Vegan
2012 Harris (2,030)
4% Veg
1% Vegan
2015 Harris (2,000+)
3.4% Veg
.5% Vegan
2016 (1) Harris (2,015)
3% Veg
1.5% Vegan
2016 (2) Harris. (2,015)
3.3% Veg
1.65% Vegan
I made a graph of these numbers;
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