More Than One In Five Brits Will Be Meat-Free By 2020, Research Predicts
While veganism has recently been on the rise, vegetarianism remains the most popular of the major diets, with 3.6 million vegetarians currently in the UK - and an addition 1.5 million hoping to follow suit in 2019.
JESS HARDIMAN: ‘Finder.com commissioned OnePoll to carry out the nationally representative survey of adults in Great Britain, questioning a total of 2,000 people. According to the research, many meat-eaters intend to change their diets over the course of 2019, with almost 12 million (22 percent) saying they will follow a vegetarian, vegan or pescatarian diet by the end of this year. If they follow through with their plans, it is believed 10 percent will opt for a vegetarian diet, while seven percent will go pescatarian and six percent vegan…
The study found that London (30 percent) and the North East (30 percent) of England have the highest proportion of residents currently or intending to be meat-free by 2019, with the findings suggesting three in every 10 people in both locations will be going without meat by the end of this year. By contrast, East Anglia sees the lowest percentage of meat-free dieters, with just 12 percent of locals going for veggie, vegan or pescatarian diets…
While veganism has recently been on the rise, vegetarianism remains the most popular of the major diets, with 3.6 million vegetarians currently in the UK – and an addition 1.5 million hoping to follow suit in 2019, bringing the total vegetarian population up to 5.2 million… Rich Hardy, Head of Campaigns at Veganuary, has recently dubbed 2019 the ‘year of the vegan’… “Going vegan in 2018 has never been far from the news headlines, and trying the Veganuary pledge is often one of the first references used in backing up the headline itself,” Hardy said’. SOURCE…
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