Is vegetarianismveganism growing more partisan over time (Rethink Priorities)

Key Points

• In a 60 month long food demand survey of a representative sample of the U.S. done by Oklahoma State University, very liberal participants were most likely to report being veg*n (vegetarian/vegan) at 15%, roughly 10 percentage points higher than the remaining participants.
• Data shows a gap in vegn rates between liberals (9.9%) and conservatives (3.8%), and between Democrats (7.4%) and Republicans (4.8%). However, annual trends show that vegn rates among conservatives/Republicans are rising as quickly or quicker than liberals/Democrats.
• Roughly 60% of self-reported vegns also selected a meat option from nine total food options, two of which were vegn.
• Annual trends for vegn rates largely decrease after filtering out “meat-purchasing vegns” suggesting that people are growing more likely to report being veg*n while continuing to select meat products.