Veggie News

Happy Hump Day!!  I love Wednesdays.  I think it's mostly because my husband usually works from home (even though he isn't today), but I also think it's because the first half of the week is done and now I can look forward to getting ready for the weekend.  Post people are working for the weekend.  I suppose a Wednesday might be a bit different for those who don't get the weekends off.  

Back to the point!  So I was having a tough time figuring out what to write about today.  I wanted it to be good, ya know?  I decided to get into bed and rest my foot while I did some research on the internet using my Kindle.  I got curious about how many people are at least vegetarians these days.  

The first link I saw was at Vegetarian Times and their article is called Vegetarianism In America.  It's a pretty cool study that was published by them and was done in 2008.  Now, I know that was five years ago, so the numbers I would imagine are going to be bigger.  Some fun facts that were noted:

• 11.9 million people are "definitely interested" in following a vegetarian based diet sometime in the future.
• 7.3 million people follow a vegetarian based diet.
• 1 million of those 7.3 million are vegans. (Woohoo! Go vegans!)
• 22.8 million people say they largely follow a vegetarian-inclined diet.

A vegetarian-inclined diet to me means they aren't the type of people who just focus on what meat they will have and possibly think of fruits and veggies first.  Maybe.  

Other fun facts was that the percentage of men or women who are vegetarian are about 50/50.  It's pretty darn close!  And 57% of these people have been vegetarian for at least 10 years!  That's a long time!  Next time I'll have to look for a study done on vegans.  

One thing that this article made me think about was how people make the awesome decision to stop eating meat, but not any of the other products.  Sure a lot of death is prevented and that's amazing.  But with continuing with eating dairy products and usually eggs, there is still a lot of death that is happening.  Not to mention the amount of yucky stuff that's in those products.  I suppose I'll have to do a post about that too.  But it also makes me wonder what their real "why" is to go vegetarian in the first place?  Which is what the next blog post will definitely be about!  

Have a great Wednesday!

Reference

Vegetarian Times. (2013).  Vegetarianism In America.  Retrieved on September 25, 2013 from: www.vegetariantimes.com/article/vegetarianism-in-america/