What percentage of animals are vegetarian?

Vegetarian and Herbivore are different things. Vegetarianism is more a conscious decision than being a herbivore. Herbivores can not eat meat at all, nil, zero, nada. While vegetarians decide against it for a multitude of reasons. read more

Herbivores can not eat meat at all, nil, zero, nada. While vegetarians decide against it for a multitude of reasons. That being said: Estimated Number of Animal and Plant Species Gets you about 6,836,330 species of animals, of which about 30% are estimated to be exclusively herbivores and carnivores are about the same, the rest are a mix. read more

However, vegetarians are sometimes wrongly assumed to be pescetarians or pollotarians. Approximately 4.0% of adults were vegetarians as of 2003. United States. In 1971, 1 percent of U.S. citizens described themselves as vegetarians. In 2008 Harris Interactive found that 3.2% are vegetarian and 0.5% vegan. read more

375 million vegetarians worldwide.According to the 2014 Meat Atlas of the Friends of the Earth and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, only a small percentage of people in the world – and many for different reasons – are defined as “vegetarian” of which there are nearly half a billion.Vegetarianism excludes foods of the “flesh” of any kind, be it red meat, poultry, birds, fish, shellfish or seafood. read more