1.6 million Hongkongers go all-veggie once a week

Hong Kong is one of the world’s biggest meat consumers — in fact, we eat 38 percent more meat than Americans.

A survey by marketing research firm Ipsos will come as a surprise then, discovering that one out of every four Hongkonger is a vegetarian and 12 percent of people go vegetarian once a week, with eight percent choosing to eat vegetarian half the time.

Full-time vegetarians make up three percent. Based on this phone survey of 1,006 Hong Kongers aged between 15-64, it is estimated that 1.6 million Hongkongers choose to go vegetarian once a week. 

Source: Apple Daily

Photo: surtr, Flickr



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