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You just generalised roughly about a billion people's diets. > 86% of vegetarians go back to eating meat because they get sick About half of those billion peo

You just generalised roughly about a billion people's diets. > 86% of vegetarians go back to eating meat because they get sick About half of those billion people were never not-vegetarian in the first place, i.e. Indians. They are generational vegetarians, having stuck to that diet for well over 3500 years. So either you pulled that factoid out of some unsavoury orifice, or you are badly misinformed. > Nearly all vegetarians I've seen are nearly never obese but nearly always look weak, sick and tired Also, source? Americans are amongst the most 'carnivorous'[1], but there is a massive obesity, heart disease, and high cholesterol problem in the US. [1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-meat-consumption-per-person?tab=table https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-meat-consumption-pe...

xrisk 3y ago
Huh, a majority of Indians aren’t vegetarian. Don't spread FUD.
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- eyelidlessness 3y ago
  I don’t have a statistical interest in this dispute, but I do think it’s worth pointing out that this is an unusual use of the term “FUD”.
SJetKaran 3y ago
Majority of Indians are non-vegetarians. Indians eat way less meat than other countries, sure. Part of this is due to cultural, religious, and cost reasons, but the fact that most Indians are non-vegetarians is un-disputed. Here is one post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yaspf6/19_of_population_in_india_eats_vegetarian_food/ https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yaspf6/19_of_populat..., but you can easily find better references online regarding the same.
- delta_p_delta_x 3y ago
  > Majority of Indians are non-vegetarians Is there somewhere in my comment that implied otherwise, so much that I got two responses saying the same thing? As far as I understand, I only said about 500 million Indians are vegetarian, which is about 35% of India's population.

xrisk 3y ago

Huh, a majority of Indians aren’t vegetarian. Don't spread FUD.

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eyelidlessness 3y ago
I don’t have a statistical interest in this dispute, but I do think it’s worth pointing out that this is an unusual use of the term “FUD”.

SJetKaran 3y ago

Majority of Indians are non-vegetarians. Indians eat way less meat than other countries, sure. Part of this is due to cultural, religious, and cost reasons, but the fact that most Indians are non-vegetarians is un-disputed. Here is one post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yaspf6/19_of_population_in_india_eats_vegetarian_food/ https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yaspf6/19_of_populat..., but you can easily find better references online regarding the same.

delta_p_delta_x 3y ago
> Majority of Indians are non-vegetarians Is there somewhere in my comment that implied otherwise, so much that I got two responses saying the same thing? As far as I understand, I only said about 500 million Indians are vegetarian, which is about 35% of India's population.