Roper Poll On Reasons For Vegetarianism, 1989
Summary By: Faunalytics | Published: September 19, 2007
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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)