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Re:WeWork Tells Employees Meat Is Permanently Off the Compan... by uncoder0 on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:53PM (#17528538)
Agreed, this is almost certainly meaningless 'virtue signaling' in practice... My main question is who is the intended audience? The 1.8% of the planet that is vegetarian?

edit: thanks for the downvote, was my comment and question offensive?

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Re:WeWork Tells Employees Meat Is Permanently Off the Compan... by craftyguy on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:58PM (#17528732)
> The 1.8% of the planet that is vegetarian

I was curious about this. According to wikipedia (take with salt), 21% of the world population is vegetarian either by choice or necessity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country

There are some surprising results in the list, but the tl;dr is: India.

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Re:WeWork Tells Employees Meat Is Permanently Off the Compan... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:33AM (#17530700)
Even in India though, I think the percent of pure vegetarians is 50-60% (not all Hindus completely abstain from meat like fish/chicken, and Muslims don’t).
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Re:WeWork Tells Employees Meat Is Permanently Off the Compan... by astura on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:36AM (#17530492)
>who is the intended audience? The 1.8% of the planet that is vegetarian?

According to TFA they are doing it to reduce their environment footprint.

>thanks for the downvote, was my comment and question offensive?

"Virtue signaling" gets an automatic downvote from me.

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