People Know Eating Meat Is Wrong, So Why Do They Still Do It? – The Atlantic
Straight up lie:
Vegetarianism is more popular than ever—but so is meat consumption. How can this be?’
By Peter Singer
Per a 2023 Gallop poll, 4% of the U.S. population says they are vegetarian, and 1% say they are vegan; this is down from 6% and 2% twenty years ago. Globally, depending on the country, vegetarianism runs between about 2% and 10% of the population and vegan about 1-2% (India is the outlier with estimates of 20-40% eating vegetarian.) A poll of 28 countries in 2018 found about 5% were vegetarian and 3% were vegan. Another study found more than half those who described themselves as vegetarian were really flexitarians – who did eat meat from time to time, which means the above percentages should be cut in half. 65% to 84% of vegetarians eventually quit and return to eating meat. 35% quit because their health declined.
Per the Gallop poll, the claim that “Vegetarianism is more popular than ever” is a lie.
A fake news story that contains a lie in the first sentence of the subheading will not be read by me so I did not read any more of this creative fiction piece. The author is a professor of bioethics – ethics – and lies in the first sentence, and likely dismisses the real and frightening health problems of vegetarian eating faced by brain injured idiots like me. The author believes no one should be eating meat (and would likely suffer serious health consequences as a result).
This disinformation promoted by The Atlantic, above, is typical media garbage. This post is about media garbage and expert lies. If you wish to eat vegetarian and know to do it properly, by all means, do what you want.
