A 2003 Harris Interactive Survey sponsored by Vegetarian Resource Group showed that 4-10% of the US population call themselves vegetarians, approxmately one half of those being vegans. The exact number of vegetarians is hard to pin down. The survey is old, and very approximate, and I am sure the numbers are increasing, but it sounds like we are in good company.
A few of the world's vegetarians include: Albert Schweitzer, Benjamin Spock, Charles Darwin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, Sir Isaac Newton, Socrates, Steven Jobs, Thomas Edison, Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, Plato, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martin Luther, Benjamin Franklin, Susan B. Antony, Albert Einstein, Vincent Van Gogh, Dennis Kucinich, Betty White, John Denver, Pythagoras, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, Buddha.
Pythagoras, the ancient Greek sage who gave us the Pythagorean theorem, is considered to be the father of vegetarianism in the west. Until the late 19th century, people who ate meatless diets were called Pythagorians.
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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