The 3.5 million figure has been floating around for a while.sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:56 pmBump from the start of the thread... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... -help.html (*** WARNING: DAILY MAIL ***) claims that the number of vegans in the UK has gone from 540,000 to 3.5 million since 2016. No source is provided for the claim, but I do wonder whether Gregg's would be doing all this R&D for 1% of the population.
Its from a survey done by a market research company which came up with 7% of the UK population.
Apparently the survey question didn't ask if people were vegan, but:
So the 7% includes everyone who tried being a vegan and stopped, and everyone who is still thinking about it.The question asked was: “Which of the following have you done or are considering doing to help reduce your impact on the planet?” This was followed by a list of options, which included “becoming vegetarian” and “becoming vegan”.
7% of respondents selected “I have done this” for the becoming vegan option