03-30-2010, 08:31 PM
(03-30-2010, 07:48 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:(03-30-2010, 07:33 PM)fairyfarmgirl Wrote: do you expect to be treated poorly due to your food choices? Fore I have traveled far and wide and most that I have known are vegetarian...
Really? Most of the people you know are vegetarian? That's amazing. You have clearly attracted a lot of vegetarians in your life, since vegetarians are only a very tiny % of the general population. (What is it...maybe 1% if I remember correctly?)
Or maybe it's where you live. I live in Texas, known for cowboys and ranchers.
I don't encounter problems much anymore since I started working at home. Now, I can choose whom I want to be around, to a great degree. Back when I worked in an office, I had no such luxury.
Actually it is higher than that at 2.8 to 10% depending on where you live in the USA... World wide it is much higher in some countries as haigh as 40%... But what is a Vegetarian... so many definitions make it challenging to correlate and quantify the data..
Here are some resources:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=706957
http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2009/02/w...on-is.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0...106422316/
http://www.happycow.net/blog/?p=133
I don't know about Texas! But where I live many are vegetarians.... And for the most part people are far too busy with their own lives to notice what you are buying at the supermarket or what you are cooking for dinner or eating for lunch... Unless of course you are saying in a loud voice you are a vegetarian and every one else in the market line is going to at least look over at you... and an errant child might ask what a vegetarian is---
Love--
fairyfarmgirl