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Roper Poll On Reasons For Vegetarianism, 1989

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This article summarizes a Roper survey on the motivations for vegetarians to abstain from meat consumption.

Summary on Roper poll regarding the reasons vegetarians give for not eating meat.

This quick summary presents a list of reasons vegetarians have given for not eating meat and asks which reasons do you personally think are the best arguments for being vegetarian.

The answers given were:

  • A vegetarian diet is better for your health (44%)
  • A vegetarian diet is a lot more economical (22%)
  • It’s wrong to kill animals for food (12%)
  • Grain will feed more of the world’s population when it’s eaten as grain than when it is used to feed livestock (9%)
  • Other reasons (3%)
  • None of these (10%)
  • Don’t know (12%)
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Citations:

Roper , Roper Center at University of Connecticut, 1989 United States (National)

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Animals Used for Food English Environment Human Health Meat Consumption Philosophy Veg*n Diets Humans

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