[903] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
RE: How many vegetarians
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Mon Apr 8 12:51:37 1996
From: Calvin Clark <caclark@microsoft.com>
To: "'vsg@MIT.EDU'" <vsg@MIT.EDU>,
'Vegetarian Resource Center'
<vrc@tiac.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:51:39 -0700
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>From: Vegetarian Resource Center[SMTP:vrc@tiac.net]
>Sent: Sunday, April 07, 1996 2:59 PM
>To: vsg@MIT.EDU
>Subject: How many vegetarians
>
>David Seelig posted an excerpt from an alternative medicine WWW page
>that claims that onlyu 2% of the US population call themselves
>vegetarians.
>
>We think that the figure is MUCH MUCH higher.
>
If you read the excerpt again, you'll see that his definition of
vegetarian is the same as what most people call vegans:
>Vegetarians. Vegetarian-type diets are associated with a decreased
>incidence of untimely death from cancer and cardiovascular diseases
>[18328, 18331]. Vegetarians eat no food of animal origin, while
>lactovegetarians consume dairy products and lacto-ovovegetarians
>consume diary products and eggs.
Of course, this doesn't completely explain his figure of 2%, which is
probably too high for vegans and too low for the class of vegetarians
which includes those who also eat eggs and/or dairy products.
-Calvin
>
