Guinness World Records was purchased by an entertainment company in 2001 and it's been a shitshow ever since. They ditched the old doorstopper reference book in

Guinness World Records was purchased by an entertainment company in 2001 and it's been a shitshow ever since. They ditched the old doorstopper reference book in favor of a big line of glossy picturebooks that contain only a few hundred records on a single subject each. They make up contrived records specifically for whatever's cool at the moment just to get mentioned in articles like this one, for free advertising. I see them a lot in gaming articles, with shit like "Most voiced lines of dialogue in a single-player RPG" (Fallout: New Vegas) and "Longest unbroken cutscene sequence" (Metal Gear Solid 4). Nobody applied for these records; someone at Guinness researches popular games to find any random statistic that might be unique. My guess is that's what happened here--someone decided that vegetarianism is hot right now and went looking for records, without too much concern for their relevance or accuracy.