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.
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.