{"id":17366,"date":"2021-05-11T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17366"},"modified":"2021-04-22T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:56:04","slug":"comparing-polls-on-the-number-of-vegetarians-vegans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/11\/comparing-polls-on-the-number-of-vegetarians-vegans\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Polls on the Number of Vegetarians\/Vegans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/vrg-logo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/vrg-logo-3.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/vrg-logo-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Always be wary when you are comparing polls, such as those\ncalculating the number of vegetarians\/vegans. We&#8217;ve been seeing articles that\nsay that 5% of Israelis are vegans&nbsp;and 8% more are vegetarians. We do know\nthere are plenty of vegan options in Israel. One member living there told us\nthat even when visiting a Russian grocery store known for its meat, he saw a\nwhole row of frozen veggie meat alternatives. However, we asked Richard\nSchwartz, author of the <em>Vegan Revolution <\/em>to\ntry to track down that Israeli poll figure. He was told that it appears that\nthe 5% and 8% figures are self-defined vegetarians and vegans. So that would be\npeople that call themselves vegetarians or vegans, which as we all know can have\ndifferent meanings to people. That is important information; however, it should\nnot be compared directly to polls such as The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s\npolls, which ask about foods people do not eat, rather than what they call\nthemselves.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For information on VRG&#8217;s polls on the number of vegans and vegetarians, see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll<\/a><br>For information on <em>Vegan Revolution<\/em>, see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lanternpm.org\/books\/vegan-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lanternpm.org\/books\/vegan-revolution\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always be wary when you are comparing polls, such as those calculating the number of vegetarians\/vegans. We&#8217;ve been seeing articles that say that 5% of Israelis are vegans&nbsp;and 8% more are vegetarians. We do know there are plenty of vegan options in Israel. One member living there told us that even when visiting a Russian [&hellip;]<\/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-17366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366","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=17366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17368,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions\/17368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}