veganism: Apparently...1 in 20 people in the UK are vegetarian or vegan. I'm not sure if it's increasing but I suppose it is. Do you reckon the UK (or the world at large) will ever be mainly vegetarian? A lot of peple are going veggie these days. Just a thought...what do you think?|||I don't have an answer, I just wanted to say it's good to see you back on here. You ok?|||Most of the world eats food that they can eat, not what they would want to eat. Besides the fact there are no world wide statistics on food (or did you really think the population of Somalia diet was tracked). As for the US and UK the only studies we have are informal polls. And even in those there are a wide portion of the vegetarians who are occasional vegetarians. For example the last wide reaching study was in 1992 where the US population of vegetarians was counted as 12.5 million. At that time it would have been 7% of the population. However they also counted people who ate fish, eggs and drank milk. Your best source would probably be IVU, as they track European vegetarians. As a whole however vegetarianism tends to be more cultural then by choice. And there is anecdotal evidence that the majority of the world (60% by some estimates) are vegetarian (mostly from the lack of access to food). But there are many non scientific studies that show that vegetarianism is not any more prevalent today then it was 20 years ago. It tends to stay well below 10%, and in most cases below 5%, of the population. But since there is no food police it is nearly impossible to get totally accurate numbers or statics.|||It already is becoming so. In fact, my doctor pushes the vegetarian diet. The physician's association he belongs to promotes it as healthier than the omivore diet. It's obviously becoming more popular with food awareness becoming more and more en vogue: exposure of the dangers and cruelties of factory farming, the environmental concerns, etc. The world will probably never be entirely vegetarian, but it will never be seen as "weird" or really even "alternative" ever again. It's just another lifestyle that's just as valid and respectable as any other (probably moreso).|||No. Or at least not for a very very very long time. You're working against the entirety of human existence. Meat is woven into the fabric of human culture. And worldwide meat consumption is actually up because more people have the money to buy it than ever before. Plus worldwide veganism is an impossibility. Yes, I said impossibility. Through science we have made it possible for those in developed countries to complete their nutritional needs through supplements, but there are no supplements if you live in the middle of the woods, or the bush, or the desert... Let me be clear. I'm answering your question in a factual way. I'm not in any way saying someone shouldn't be vegetarian or vegan if they so choose. EDIT: Guess again Denizen. What do you think your food is fortified with? Your B12 is coming from somewhere, and it's not just from a plant. Yes, synthetically, because you live in a developed country. Your not a bushman with zero access to fortified anything. "Do you reckon the UK (or the world at large) will ever be mainly vegetarian?" Stop fighting me, you're just being silly. I gave my answer, you gave yours, why try to put down mine?|||Absolutely. It'll probably be after we're dead, but I'm very confident of it. People are realizing how unhealthy and cruel our modern diet is, and although I doubt meat-eating will ever entirely disappear from our species, the current system cannot last. This is one of very few causes I am at all optimistic about, but the way the idea of Veg(etari)anism has snowballed in the last 20-30 years, it seems like it could happen. "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." - Leonardo Da Vinci|||i would like that. less demand, less cruel supply. hopefully. even though i never come across another vegetarian, im always the only vegetarian. gets tiresome sometimes, ppl going on about it, i dont go on about their dietary choice do i? gggrrrr. people go veggie these days more for health than for ethical reasons. my reasons are ethical and i respect someone more if their reasons are ethical too, but i suppose the end result is all the same. but i dont think it'l ever replace meat eating. its just accepted, blindly. some answers on here are totally misinformed. while humans might be 'meant' to eat meat, we would not be designed to eat it every day. and the meat would not come from animals living in unnatural and cruel conditions, with most of it going to waste. also, traditionally, people respected the animal who died to feed him. people dont do that anymore. just look at mcdonalds and kfc, people dont give a crap they forget that its an animal they are eating. so even if more thought went into animal welfare issues in people decisions of purchasing meat and fish, i would be happy with that. cant argue those points now can u. think about things, are we all meant to just do what nature 'wants' for us? follow the crowd and not make our own choices based on our beliefs? at least we stand for something and do something about it. k rant over.|||i think in the future people will be split into two, the very poor and the very rich, and the very poor will be 400 pounds and wear crocs and swet pants and shop at walmart for genetically engineered meats and salty junk food and only live about 40 years or so. the very rich will wear weird futuristic all organic hemp fiber and cotton jumpsuits and have space aged organic greenhouses in their apartments and be 100% vegan gorgeous people who live to be 175 years old.|||Yes, I really do. It's much healthier and the food tastes great and you feel ALOT better. It will take some time but yes, I truly think most people will be vegan eventually.|||Hopefully as racism and sexism are dying out, speciesism will have its time as well.|||Yes Veggie is mainstream because science has proved it to be more healthy than meat/pork/chicken etc|||Yea...it will one day. When the time comes, we shall say that "they are living like a human know."|||I'M seeing more and more. Same thing happened with slavery right?|||Hopefully not, but I don't expect any better from the UK, where they don't have freedom of speech anymore. Meat is very healthy, and humans are supposed to have meat in their diets, since we are omnivores, not rabbits. So when people become more educated about dietary matters, meat-eating should be on the rise.|||i hope not... im not a vegetarian. and im healthy, good looking and athletic. And i eat meat w/ almost every meal. GO MEAT!!