{"id":20235,"date":"2022-11-10T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=20235"},"modified":"2022-10-27T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T17:22:28","slug":"the-number-of-vegetarians-and-vegans-in-the-usa-1994-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/10\/the-number-of-vegetarians-and-vegans-in-the-usa-1994-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number of Vegetarians and Vegans in the USA 1994-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/vrg-logo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/vrg-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/vrg-logo-1.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/vrg-logo-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group has commissioned national polls since 1994 to find out how many Americans are vegetarian or vegan. In 1994 we stated, \u201cWe can be 95% sure that 0.3% to 1% of the population is vegetarian.\u201d In 2006 2.3% of Americans were vegetarian and 1.4% were vegan. By 2012 we reported that 3% of the US population was vegetarian and another 1% was vegan. In 2019 4% of Americans were vegetarian and 2% were vegan. Finally, in a poll commissioned this year (2022), 3% of the US population is vegetarian and another 3% is vegan. Please keep in mind that when VRG commissions national polls we ask the following question:<\/p>\n<p>Please tell us which of the following foods, if any, you never eat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meat<\/li>\n<li>Poultry<\/li>\n<li>Fish or Seafood<\/li>\n<li>Dairy Products<\/li>\n<li>Eggs<\/li>\n<li>Honey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Poll results can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group has commissioned national polls since 1994 to find out how many Americans are vegetarian or vegan. In 1994 we stated, \u201cWe can be 95% sure that 0.3% to 1% of the population is vegetarian.\u201d In 2006 2.3% of Americans were vegetarian and 1.4% were vegan. By 2012 we reported that 3% [&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-20235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235","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=20235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20237,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235\/revisions\/20237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}