{"id":9003,"date":"2010-04-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/24\/how-many-of-us-youth-are-vegetarian\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T12:00:00","slug":"how-many-of-us-youth-are-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/24\/how-many-of-us-youth-are-vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many of U.S. Youth Are Vegetarian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll\">www.vrg.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, April 2010: In order to find an estimate of the number of younger &#8220;true&#8221; vegetarians in the United States, Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct an online survey of eight to eighteen year olds.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, an estimated 1.4 million youth in the United States are vegetarian, while about three million never eat meat. The survey results indicate that 7% of 8- to 18-year-olds never eat meat, while 12% of males ages 10 to 12 stated they don&#8217;t eat meat. In a 2009 VRG Harris poll, a similar 8% of adults said they never eat meat. Note that other surveys which don&#8217;t use the word &#8220;never,&#8221; are likely to find even more people don&#8217;t eat meat.<\/p>\n<p>In the poll, 3% of U.S youth indicated they never eat meat, poultry, and fish\/seafood. They were classified as vegetarian. About 1\/3 of the vegetarians (1% of the U.S. youth population) also never eat dairy, eggs, and honey, and were classified as vegan. An additional 1\/3 of the vegetarians (1% of the U.S. youth population) were vegan, except for honey. Thus, about two-thirds of vegetarians (2% of the U.S. youth population) are either vegan, or vegan except for honey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.vrg.org UNITED STATES, April 2010: In order to find an estimate of the number of younger &#8220;true&#8221; vegetarians in,&#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-9003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003","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=9003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}