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In some cities' schools in Finland, the students are offered two options, a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian meal, on four school days a week, and one day a week they have a choice between two vegetarian meals, for grades 1 to 12. In secondary schools and universities, from 10 to 40 percent of the students preferred vegetarian food in 2013.
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] Veganism increased among Israeli Arabs. [147]
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.
Food from plants. A plant-based diet is a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods. [1] [2] It encompasses a wide range of dietary patterns that contain low amounts of animal products and high amounts of fiber-rich [3] plant products such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices.
In 2015, according to the Voedingscentrum, 55% of Dutch people were flexitarians. [13] According to Natuur & Milieu, in 2016, 67% of the Dutch were flexitarian. [6] According to research by Wageningen University & Research, the number of Dutch people who call themselves flexitarians increased from 14% in 2011 to 43% in 2019.
For example, the FAO (2002) figure for Denmark, which has one of the highest meat export rates compared to its population, was 145.9 kg (322 lb) (highest in the world). More recent FAO figures (2009) have taken the earlier discrepancy into account, resulting in a significantly lower 95.2 kg (210 lb) for Denmark (13th in the world).
World: Based in Berlin, serves as umbrella of all ProVeg organisations. [2] Scottish Vegetarian Society [5] 1892 Scotland: Based in Glasgow, Scotland. Merged with the Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom in the 1980s. [6] Swissveg [7] 1993 [8] Switzerland: Known as Schweizerische Vereinigung für Vegetarismus until 2014 [8] The Vegan ...
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.