DEFRA report on number of vegans/age/gender

[muchluv]

http://archive.defra.gov.uk/evidence/st ... ta_all.pdf

Go to page 500...

more men than women!

[kallefs]

Nice spread among the age groups. Didn't expect that.

[Linnéa76]

Nice spread among the age groups. Didn't expect that.

Me neither! A difference between urban and rural areas though, as expected...

more men than women!

Looks like more women are vegetarians and failatarians instead.

[JS]

More guys. Wow that does surprise me as we're always led to believe it's a female thing.

People who describes themselves as vegetarian but eat fish and chicken is pretty high at 3% actually more than those that eat fish!? Shows how much we still need to educate folk into not using that label as no wonder caterers can be confused

[Konstantin]

Be very careful about relying on these sort of figures. It's a very small sample size when considering a small minority, so distortion due to chance is very easy.

Interesting though. Only 5% vegetarian or vegan...we have a long way to go.

[skoptic]

Interesting though. Only 5% vegetarian or vegan...we have a long way to go.

10% if you include all those wonderful 'fish and chicken eating' vegetarians Yes very small sample size, and DEFRA are muppets, so I trust it even less.

** edit - weird someone wrote a response that posted as me... **

[JP]

the lack of progress in vegetarian numbers in UK is pretty depressing compared to the surge in other countries.

A lot of the progress in recent years have been from the meat reductionists and flexi folk.

We need to step up our game a bit

i blame Quorn - those bastards are holding EVERYTHING back!