{"id":7904,"date":"2009-06-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/13\/how-many-vegetarians-are-there-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2009-06-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T12:00:00","slug":"how-many-vegetarians-are-there-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/13\/how-many-vegetarians-are-there-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Vegetarians Are There in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/press\/2009poll.htm\">www.vrg.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA, JUNE 14, 2009: The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) has conducted a poll to find out how many people in the US are vegetarian. US adults were asked which of the following foods they NEVER eat: meat, poultry, fish\/seafood, dairy products, eggs, or honey.<\/p>\n<p>In the survey, 3.4% of US adults indicated they never eat meat, poultry and fish\/seafood. These were classified as vegetarian. Of this group, one percent also never eat dairy, eggs, and honey, and were classified as vegan. Eight percent of respondents said they never eat bovine meat. The results of this poll should encourage companies and restaurants to develop more meatless products and dishes for these consumers.<\/p>\n<p>ADULTS IN THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE VEGETARIAN:<br \/>3.4% Total<\/p>\n<p>Among groups:<br \/>3.3% Male<br \/>3.4% Female<br \/>5.2% Female, ages 18-34<br \/>3.3% Northeast<br \/>1.3% Midwest<br \/>3.5% South<br \/>5.4% West<br \/>0.8% Vegan (never eat meat, fish, fowl, dairy, eggs, or honey)<br \/>1.3% quasi-Vegan, eat honey<\/p>\n<p>ADULTS IN THE UNITED STATES WHO NEVER EAT BOVINE MEAT:<br \/>8% Total<\/p>\n<p>Among groups: <br \/>11% West<br \/>12% Female, ages 18-34<br \/>9% Male, ages 18-34<br \/>15% Student<\/p>\n<p>For additional vegetarian polls, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll\">this FAQ.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.vrg.org USA, JUNE 14, 2009: The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) has conducted a poll to find out how many,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}