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Why Do Most Vegetarians Go Back To Eating Meat?

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Researchers surveyed ex-vegetarians to determine what their motivations were for returning to meat-eating.

Based on surveys of 77 “backsliders,” people who were once vegetarian but returned to eating meat, the researchers identified five reasons for returning to meat-eating: declining health (35%), hassles and social stigmas (25%), irresistible urges (15%), and shifts in moral thinking (3%).

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Hal Herzog, Morgan Childers, Psychology Today, 2011

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Animals Used for Food English Meat / Animal Product Consumption Psychology Veg*n Diets

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