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   From: george@si.not   
      
   Why Do So Many "Vegetarians" Umm...Lie About Their Diets?   
      
   If there are so few true vegetarians, what about all those books that   
   claim we are in the midst of a dietary revolution? Don't believe them.   
   The reason for the widespread but mistaken belief that America is   
   rapidly going veg is the mismatch between what people say they eat and   
   what they actually eat. Take a 2002 Times/CNN poll on the eating habits   
   of 10,000 Americans. Six percent of the individuals surveyed said they   
   considered themselves vegetarian. But when asked by the pollsters what   
   they had eaten in the last 24 hours, 60% of the self-described   
   "vegetarians" admitted that that had consumed red meat, poultry or fish   
   the previous day. In another survey, the United States Department of   
   Agriculture randomly telephoned 13,313 Americans. Three percent of the   
   respondents answered yes to the question, "Do you consider yourself to   
   be a vegetarian?" A week later the researchers called the participants   
   again and this time asked what they had eaten the day before. The   
   results were even more dramatic than the Times/CNN survey: this time 66%   
   of the "vegetarians" had eaten animal flesh in the last 24 hours.   
      
   http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201109/why-ar   
   -there-so-few-vegetarians   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)