how much of the us population is vegetarian
Vegetarianism by country In 1971, 1 percent of U.S. citizens described themselves as vegetarians.[116] In 2008 Harris Interactive found that 3.2% are vegetarian and 0.5% vegan,[117] while a 2013 Public Policy Polling survey of 500 respondents found that 13% of Americans are either vegetarian or veganâ€”6% vegetarian and 7% vegan.[118] U.S. vegetarian food sales (dairy replacements such as soy milk and meat replacements such as textured vegetable protein) doubled between 1998 and 2003, reaching $1.6 billion in 2003.[119] According to a report in 2017, the number of consumers claiming to be vegan has risen to 6% in the US [120] In 2015, a Harris Poll National Survey of 2,017 adults aged 18 and over found that eight million Americans, or 3.4%, ate a solely vegetarian diet, and that one million, or 0.4%, ate a strictly vegan diet.[41]