(Newswire.net — December 4, 2014) — Psychologist Hal Herzog, Ph.D. published in Psychology Today an article explaining why her daughter returned to meat. In article titled ‘Animals and Us’, she wrote that her daughter decided to become vegan when she was 13-uears old. Dr. Herzog’s daughter decided to return to meat when she was 31-year old.
According to Dr. Herzog, more Vegetarians and Vegans Return to Meat. She quoted a new study results that says:
‘The proportion of true vegetarians and vegans in the United State is surprisingly small. Only about 2% of respondents did not consume any meat – 1.5% was vegetarians and 0.5% were vegans. These finding are generally consistent with other studies.
The study shows five out of six people who give up meat eventually abandon their vegetarian ways.
Further analysis showed vegans are less like to backslide than vegetarians.
While 86% of vegetarians returned to eating meat, only 70% of vegans did. Study indicated that vegetarians and vegans are politically liberal, while carnivores are more conservative. When returning to meat, vegetarians and vegans also become politically closer to conservatives.
As expected, there were higher proportions of women than men among both present and former meat avoiders. Nearly every study has found that women are more concerned about animal issues.
Meat avoiders originally gave up eating meat for reasons of taste, concern for animals, feelings of disgust, social justice, and religious beliefs, research showed. According to Dr. Herzog, the reason her daughter stopped eating meat is that she wanted to be different, because she was raised in a town with near-100 percent carnivore population. She simply wanted to stand out as a teenager. That is why she becomes vegan, because being vegetarians means dieting while being vegan is a lifestyle.
The study showed that 29% of ex-vegetarians/vegans indicated that they experienced specific health-related symptoms while on a no-meat diet. Further analysis showed 37% of ex-vegetarian/vegans indicated that they would be interested in going back to a no-meat diet at some point in the future.