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

> FUD

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.

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”.

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_populat..., but you can easily find better references online regarding the same.

> 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.