Editing Vegetarianism (section)

==Demographics==
Prejudice researcher Gordon Hodson argues that vegetarians and vegans frequently face [[discrimination]] where eating meat is held as a cultural norm.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Prejudice Against "Group X" (Asexuals)|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/without-prejudice/201209/prejudice-against-group-x-asexuals|magazine=[[Psychology Today]]|last=Hodson|first=Gordon|date=September 1, 2012|access-date=December 30, 2013}}</ref>

===Turnover===
Research suggests that, at least in the United States, vegetarianism has a high turnover rate, with less than 20% of adopters persisting for more than a year.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1007/s11196-018-9543-3 |title=The Politics and the Demographics of Veganism: Notes for a Critical Analysis|year=2018 |last1=Martinelli|first1=Dario|last2=Berkmanienė|first2=Aušra|journal=International Journal for the Semiotics of Law|volume=31|issue=3|pages=501–530 |s2cid=149235953}}</ref> Research shows that lacking social support contributes to lapses.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Melnick |first1=Meredith |title=Turns Out, Your Vegetarianism Probably Is Just A Phase |work=HuffPost |date=May 12, 2014 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vegetarian-phase_n_6270584 |archive-date=March 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323020140/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vegetarian-phase_n_6270584 }} [https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/vegetarian-phase_us_6270584 Alt URL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023071424/https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/vegetarian-phase_us_6270584 |date=October 23, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Schultz |first1=Colin |title=Most Vegetarians Lapse After Only a Year |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/most-vegetarians-lapse-after-only-year-180953565/ |access-date=February 27, 2021 |date=December 9, 2014 |archive-date=March 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305044724/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/most-vegetarians-lapse-after-only-year-180953565/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2022}} A 2019 analysis found that adhering to any kind of restricted diet (gluten-free, vegetarian, kosher, teetotal) was associated with feelings of loneliness and increased social isolation.<ref>{{cite journal |title= Food restriction and the experience of social isolation |journal= Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|year= 2020|doi=10.1037/pspi0000223|last1= Woolley|first1= Kaitlin|last2= Fishbach|first2= Ayelet|last3= Wang|first3= Ronghan (Michelle)|volume= 119|issue= 3|pages= 657–671 |pmid= 31724417|s2cid= 208018174}}</ref>

Vegetarians or vegans who adopted their diet abruptly might be more likely to eventually abandon it when compared to individuals adopting their diet gradually with incremental changes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Haverstock|first1=Katie|last2=Forgays|first2=Deborah Kirby|date=June 1, 2012|title=To eat or not to eat. A comparison of current and former animal product limiters|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666312000906|journal=Appetite|volume=58|issue=3|pages=1030–1036|doi=10.1016/j.appet.2012.02.048|pmid=22387715|s2cid=13886878|issn=0195-6663|access-date=March 20, 2021|archive-date=August 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806013344/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666312000906|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Country-specific information===
{{main|Vegetarianism by country}}

The rate of vegetarianism by country varies substantially from relatively low levels in countries such as the Netherlands (5%)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vegetariers.nl/bewust/veelgestelde-vragen/hoeveel-vegetariers-zijn-er|language=nl|title=Hoeveel vegetariërs zijn er?|website=vegetariers.nl|access-date=December 13, 2020|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112022039/https://www.vegetariers.nl/bewust/veelgestelde-vragen/hoeveel-vegetariers-zijn-er|url-status=live}}</ref> to more considerable levels in India (20–40%).<ref name=":7">{{Cite news|date=April 3, 2018|title=The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43581122|access-date=November 12, 2020|archive-date=August 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808011417/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43581122|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=June 4, 2014|title=Nutritional profile of Indian vegetarian diets – the Indian Migration Study (IMS)|journal=Nutrition Journal|volume=13|doi=10.1186/1475-2891-13-55|pmid=24899080|pmc = 4055802|last1 = Shridhar|first1 = Krithiga|last2 = Dhillon|first2 = Preet Kaur|last3 = Bowen|first3 = Liza|last4 = Kinra|first4 = Sanjay|last5 = Bharathi|first5 = Ankalmadugu Venkatsubbareddy|last6 = Prabhakaran|first6 = Dorairaj|last7 = Reddy|first7 = Kolli Srinath|last8 = Ebrahim|first8 = Shah|page = 55 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Estimates for the number of vegetarians per country can be subject to methodological difficulties, as respondents may identify as vegetarian even if they include some meat in their diet, and thus some researchers suggest the percentage of vegetarians may be significantly overestimated.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Why Are There So Few Vegetarians?|magazine=[[Psychology Today]]|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/animals-and-us/201109/why-are-there-so-few-vegetarians|last=Herzog|first=Hal|date=September 6, 2011|access-date=January 20, 2021}}</ref>