{"id":16461,"date":"2020-11-17T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16461"},"modified":"2020-11-03T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T15:53:08","slug":"when-making-decisions-about-food-is-your-ethics-at-least-one-consideration-question-asked-by-vrg-in-a-national-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/when-making-decisions-about-food-is-your-ethics-at-least-one-consideration-question-asked-by-vrg-in-a-national-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT FOOD, IS YOUR ETHICS AT LEAST ONE CONSIDERATION? Question asked by VRG in a national poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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VRG asked the following in a\nnational Harris Poll. See: vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/07\/how-many-adults-in-the-u-s-are-vegan-how-many-adults-eat-vegetarian-when-eating-out-asks-the-vegetarian-resource-group-in-a-national-poll\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which of the following, if\nany, best describes your eating behavior?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never eat meat, fish,\nseafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs.
\nI never eat meat, fish, seafood, or poultry.
\nI never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs when eating out or\ngetting takeout, but eat one or more of these foods at home.
\nI never eat meat, fish, seafood, or poultry when eating out or getting takeout,\nbut eat one or more of these foods at home.
\nWhen eating out or getting takeout, I sometimes eat meals without meat, fish,\npoultry, dairy, or eggs.
\nWhen eating out or getting takeout, I sometimes eat meals without meat, fish,\nor poultry.
\nNone of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We considered those that\nnever eat meat, fish, seafood, or poultry; plus those that never eat meat,\nfish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs, as vegetarian. We classified that\nsecond category of vegetarians who don\u2019t eat dairy or eggs also as vegan.\nBecause we use the word \u201cnever\u201d and don\u2019t just ask if a person considers\nhim\/herself vegetarian, our numbers may be lower than others. Be wary of\ncomparing to polls in other countries that ask if you are vegetarian or vegan,\nsince people may self define differently. We did not ask about honey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     More than half of the U.S. adult population (54%) always\nor sometimes eats vegetarian (including vegan) meals when eating out. One\nfourth (25%) of U.S.\nadults always or sometimes eats vegan meals when eating out. Six percent of\nAmerican adults are vegetarian (including vegans) all the time, and half of the\nvegetarians are also vegan (three percent of American adults). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We asked the following\nadditional question, which may be of interest to businesses, marketers,\nresearchers, academics, students, social scientists, and religious leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This survey also asked,\n\u201cWhich of the following when making decisions, is your ethics at least one\nconsideration? Please select all that apply.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see the chart with the\nresulting answers see: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/harris2020ethics.pdf<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While 45% of Americans say\nethics is at least one consideration when making decisions about food, 64% of\nvegetarians (including vegans) did so, and only 34% of those that never eat\nvegetarian or vegan meals. Only 14% of all Americans and 5% of vegetarians say\nethics is not at least one consideration when making decisions about any of the\naspects listed. It is interesting that most Americans say ethics is at least\none consideration when making decisions among the aspects listed here, but\nwhich aspects have consideration of ethics when making decisions varies by\nindividual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This survey was conducted\nonline within the United States\nby The Harris Poll on behalf of The Vegetarian Resource Group <\/strong>from\nJune 22-24, 2020 among 2,074 U.S.\nadults ages 18 and older. This online survey is not based on a probability\nsample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be\ncalculated. For survey methodology, please contact vrg@vrg.org<\/a>. Please note that this poll was taken\nduring the Covid-19 pandemic. We do not know what influence, if any, that may\nhave had on the survey answers. See: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll<\/a>\nfor more poll information <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VRG asked the following in a national Harris Poll. See: vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/07\/how-many-adults-in-the-u-s-are-vegan-how-many-adults-eat-vegetarian-when-eating-out-asks-the-vegetarian-resource-group-in-a-national-poll\/ Which of the following, if any, best describes your eating behavior? I never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs. I never eat meat, fish, seafood, or poultry. I never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs when eating out or getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16463,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions\/16463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}