Not sure where they got that number. The [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country#cite_note-swissveg.ch-52) they cite as source says 5%. Also u/Charly_Ngals beef steak is expensive but that’s not the only kind of meat there is. Less wealthy non vegetarians still eat chicken, sausages, ham, salami and other cold cuts, bacon, canned tuna… many of these things are not very expensive, at least the off brand stuff.
judging by the sheer number of vegan/vegetarian products at Coop (and Migros), there must be a lot of vegetarians. Among social science students, I’d say it’s close to a third
Atm one can almost feel that number rise. Many people going vegan or vegetarian. I myself am battling for months now, whether I should finally pull the trigger. I’m like 95% vegetarian anyways, so..
Aazeig isch dusse!
No, looks like the usual survey results. Be that as it may: The number of veg(etari)ans is way too low. Poor animals. I’m vegan btw.
The whole problem with vegetarianism and veganism is that it is seen as something you ARE rather than something you DO (or rather, don’t).
It’s a bit strange to make something so trivial a thing of identity, and alienates a lot of people. If I happen not to eat meat in a month, am I a vegetarian during that month? Or am I a person who just didn’t end up eating meat? What about a meat eater, is he a vegetarian during his sleep? Is he a vegetarian that one day he ate pasta al pesto?
Measuring the “vegetarian population” isn’t really a useful statistic if you want to see meat consumption in a state. Maybe a kg/person year would be more insightful of the population’s eating habits.
We gotta bump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
I wonder how many they got in the US… -2 perhaps ?
Compared to other places I’ve been to, at least in Geneva, the vegetarian choices in restaurants are rare. In UK I’ve been to steakhouses that had more vegetarian plates than your average restaurant in Geneva.
half of my high school class (in Zurich) were vegetarian/vegan but I think the percentages are higher in the cities than in the countryside
No way this is correct! It still remains very difficult to find decent vegetarian options in restaurants…
It should be 100% for every country tbh..
Half of my friends are vegetarians but I am a 22 year old neurodivergent, queer university student who lives in the city of Zürich, so my experiences aren’t exactly representative of Switzerland at large.
I’m vegetarian 14% of the time
I’ve been vegetarian my entire life, so based on my
anecdotal experience I’m quite skeptical that there would be so many others like me in Switzerland 🤔
Most of these internet graphics are based on junk number nonsense, if they are based on anything at all.
Specially in Brasil, isn’t Brasil and Argentina like the meat countries of South America?
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Did you see meat’s price? Some people are poor and don’t eat meat yet they call it vegetarian…
“According to a 2020 survey by Swissveg, there were 5.1% vegetarians and 1% vegans.[50]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country
Not sure where they got that number. The [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country#cite_note-swissveg.ch-52) they cite as source says 5%. Also u/Charly_Ngals beef steak is expensive but that’s not the only kind of meat there is. Less wealthy non vegetarians still eat chicken, sausages, ham, salami and other cold cuts, bacon, canned tuna… many of these things are not very expensive, at least the off brand stuff.
judging by the sheer number of vegan/vegetarian products at Coop (and Migros), there must be a lot of vegetarians. Among social science students, I’d say it’s close to a third
Atm one can almost feel that number rise. Many people going vegan or vegetarian. I myself am battling for months now, whether I should finally pull the trigger. I’m like 95% vegetarian anyways, so..
Aazeig isch dusse!
No, looks like the usual survey results. Be that as it may: The number of veg(etari)ans is way too low. Poor animals. I’m vegan btw.
The whole problem with vegetarianism and veganism is that it is seen as something you ARE rather than something you DO (or rather, don’t).
It’s a bit strange to make something so trivial a thing of identity, and alienates a lot of people. If I happen not to eat meat in a month, am I a vegetarian during that month? Or am I a person who just didn’t end up eating meat? What about a meat eater, is he a vegetarian during his sleep? Is he a vegetarian that one day he ate pasta al pesto?
Measuring the “vegetarian population” isn’t really a useful statistic if you want to see meat consumption in a state. Maybe a kg/person year would be more insightful of the population’s eating habits.
We gotta bump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
I wonder how many they got in the US… -2 perhaps ?
Compared to other places I’ve been to, at least in Geneva, the vegetarian choices in restaurants are rare. In UK I’ve been to steakhouses that had more vegetarian plates than your average restaurant in Geneva.
half of my high school class (in Zurich) were vegetarian/vegan but I think the percentages are higher in the cities than in the countryside
No way this is correct! It still remains very difficult to find decent vegetarian options in restaurants…
It should be 100% for every country tbh..
Half of my friends are vegetarians but I am a 22 year old neurodivergent, queer university student who lives in the city of Zürich, so my experiences aren’t exactly representative of Switzerland at large.
I’m vegetarian 14% of the time
I’ve been vegetarian my entire life, so based on my
anecdotal experience I’m quite skeptical that there would be so many others like me in Switzerland 🤔
Most of these internet graphics are based on junk number nonsense, if they are based on anything at all.
Specially in Brasil, isn’t Brasil and Argentina like the meat countries of South America?