> 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-pe...
How is this 'fear, uncertainty, and/or doubt'? At worst, my fact is wrong, but it certainly isn't inducing 'fear', nor 'doubt'. People should really not use words and acronyms that they don't fully understand... Furthermore, the parent commenter said:
> 86% of vegetarians go back to eating meat,
emphasis mine. There are roughly a billion vegetarians worldwide, depending on who you ask. About half of those vegetarians (i.e. roughly 500 million) are Indian. As I already mentioned, these vegetarians are generational, going back thousands of years. I assume the parent commenter meant to discuss Western vegetarians, who have typically adopted the diet within their own lifetimes, ergo the 'go back'.
Coming from the other side, about 30%-40% of Indians are vegetarian (again, depending on the source). Given India's current population, this number again evaluates to about 500 million.
So, nothing wrong with my comment, and I most certainly didn't say 'a majority of Indians are vegetarian'. There is a significant margin of error, yes (on the order of ± 100 million), but there always is when trying to estimate this sort of socio-cultural aspect.
Here is one post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yaspf6/19_of_populat..., but you can easily find better references online regarding the same.
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.
People can easily live off a carnivore diet, they can't with beans. 86% of vegetarians go back to eating meat because they get sick. Nearly all vegetarians I've seen are nearly never obese but nearly always look weak, sick and tired.