FWIW, the rate was ~50% for vegans who were motivated by animal protection, and ~70% for vegetarians (including vegans) who were motivated by animal protection, based on table 17 on p.18 here.
For vegans who were motivated by animal protection, hereās the recidivism rate calculation:
0.27Ć129/(0.62Ć53+0.27Ć127)ā0.52ā50%
The recidivism rate was about 84% of vegetarians motivated by health, who made up more than half, and 86.6% for vegetarians not motivated by animal protection. Actually, only 27% of former vegetarians and 27% of former vegans were motivated by animal protection, even though those motivated by animal protection make up 70% and 62% of current vegetarians and current vegans, respectively. Also see Tables 9 and 10.
I donāt think itās surprising that people who go veg*n other than for animals go back to eating meat. It could be evidence of some cost, but it could also mainly be evidence that most people who go veg*n do so for reasons they eventually no longer found compelling, so even small costs would have been enough to bring them back to eating meat.
They also go over difficulties people had with their diets in that study, too, though.
I wonder how much we can trust peopleās given reasons for having been veg? For example, say people sometimes go veg both for health reasons and because they also care about animals. I could imagine something where if you asked them while they were still veg they would say āmostly because I care about animalsā but then if you ask them after you get more āI was doing it for health reasonsā because talking about how you used to do it for the animals makes you sound selfish?
FWIW, the rate was ~50% for vegans who were motivated by animal protection, and ~70% for vegetarians (including vegans) who were motivated by animal protection, based on table 17 on p.18 here.
For vegans who were motivated by animal protection, hereās the recidivism rate calculation:
The recidivism rate was about 84% of vegetarians motivated by health, who made up more than half, and 86.6% for vegetarians not motivated by animal protection. Actually, only 27% of former vegetarians and 27% of former vegans were motivated by animal protection, even though those motivated by animal protection make up 70% and 62% of current vegetarians and current vegans, respectively. Also see Tables 9 and 10.
I donāt think itās surprising that people who go veg*n other than for animals go back to eating meat. It could be evidence of some cost, but it could also mainly be evidence that most people who go veg*n do so for reasons they eventually no longer found compelling, so even small costs would have been enough to bring them back to eating meat.
They also go over difficulties people had with their diets in that study, too, though.
I wonder how much we can trust peopleās given reasons for having been veg? For example, say people sometimes go veg both for health reasons and because they also care about animals. I could imagine something where if you asked them while they were still veg they would say āmostly because I care about animalsā but then if you ask them after you get more āI was doing it for health reasonsā because talking about how you used to do it for the animals makes you sound selfish?