"In a survey of 11,000 individuals, 37% of those who responded "Yes, I am a vegetarian" also reported that in the previous 24 hours they had eaten red meat; 60% had eaten meat, poultry or seafood."
I'm so glad that I'm not the only person who is consistently inconsistent.
Source: Time Magazine
Courtesy of Raymond Chen.
June 2008
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ACK!! i was aware of the "i'm a vegetarian but i do eat fish" and even the "i'm a vegetarian but i still eat chicken" people, but somehow i am blown away that someone might identify as vegetarian (37% of somebodies, in fact) even when they had eaten red meat in the previous 24 hours. i guess it's really no different than the other examples, but i'm so used to people acting like red meat is the "real" meat (and therefore chicken or fish is a veggie, heh) that this is a pretty crazy statistic.
It was pretty strange to see these numbers. I never would have guessed it would be so high myself.
I think that people have a lot of good intentions but they find it hard to follow through on them.
At least falling of the vegetarian wagon won't net you a "driving while carnivorous" ticket the way falling off the alcohol wagon could net a "driving while intoxicated" offense.