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Veganism was most common in the states of Gujarat (4.9%) and Maharashtra (4.0%). [144] Israel: Five percent (approx. 300,000) in Israel said they were vegan in 2014, making it the highest per capita vegan population in the world. [145] A 2015 survey by Globes and Israel's Channel 2 News similarly found 5% of Israelis were vegan. [146]
The IVU's 1975 World Vegetarian Congress in Orono, Maine caused a significant impact on to the country's vegetarian movement. [157] Henry Stephens Salt [158] (1851–1939) and George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) were famous vegetarian activists. [159]
The country's food labelling laws for vegetarian food are the world's strictest, because it has been estimated that more than 3 million Taiwanese people eat vegetarian food, which accounts for approximately 13% of the national population. [80] [81] A popular movement of "one day vegetarian every week" has been advocated on a national level. [82]
Jewish vegetarianism and veganism have become especially popular among Israeli Jews. [42] In 2016, an op-ed argued that Israel was "the most vegan country on Earth", as five percent of its population eschewed all animal products. That number had more than doubled since 2010, when only 2.6 percent of Israelis were either vegan or vegetarian. [43]
Jewish vegetarianism and veganism have become especially popular among Israeli Jews. In 2016, Israel was described as "the most vegan country on Earth", as five percent of its population eschewed all animal products. [178] Interest in veganism has grown among both non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews in Israel. [179]
Veganism involves following a vegan diet, which is a diet that includes no animal products of any kind. It can extend to ethical veganism which avoids or boycotts all products and activities whose production or undertaking is perceived to exploit animals, such as leather, silk, fur, wool, and cosmetics that have been tested on animals, as well as blood sports such as bullfighting and fox hunting.
Medical doctor, author, president of the first Portuguese vegetarian society Portugal [623] Henry Spira: Widely regarded as one of the most effective animal rights activists of the 20th century United States [624] Victoria Starmer: Solicitor United kingdom [625] Freddie Starr: Comedian United Kingdom [626] Ringo Starr
Until the creation of the Vegetarian Society, vegetarians were referred to as Pythagoreans. [1] Romantic writers like Percy and Mary Shelley, Alexander Pope, Thomas Tryon and Joseph Ritson were promoters of vegetarianism. In her Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley depicts The Creature of Dr. Frankenstein as a vegetarian. In an ...