The Baltimore-based Vegetarian Resource Group has, for 30 years, periodically commissioned national polls on what Americans eat. In 1994, 1% of their respondents said they did not eat any kind of animal flesh. By 2022, the percentage of Americans who were vegetarian or vegan had jumped six-fold.
Their paper described the results of two studies. The first study tracked gender differences in dietary shifts among 13,000 students at the College of William & Mary over 15 years. The second study focused on gender differences in the reasons their subjects had given up meat.
The percentage of female students who identified as vegetarian or vegan jumped from 4.3% to 8%. In contrast, the percentage of men who stopped consuming meat dropped from 2.5% to 1.8%. This pattern of gender difference remained when pescatarians-'vegetarians' were considered.
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