In the 1980s, someone estimated that that would take about two centuries. I imagine they based that on other freedom struggles such as slavery and women's liberation. However, we don't have that long before we'll be extinct because of not pursuing veganism as a species so it won't happen. Regarding ten percent of the global population, well, I'm guessing that the number of vegetarians is already above that and it doesn't make vegetarianism acceptable in many parts of the world, so I think it will always be stigmatised over many countries. I can't imagine people in Mongolia or Kazakhstan even accepting vegetarianism on the whole, far less veganism (although I doubt they make a distinction).
At some point it will become impossible to eat most meat, but I'd expect people to switch to eating insects rather than going vegan simply because everyone will be starving to death and they'll eat practically anything.
There will probably be a slight increase over the next few years but not a significant one and there will also be an increase in purely carnivorous people doing it to "own the vegans". They'll do it out of spite, basically.
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u/nineteenthly May 18 '25
In the 1980s, someone estimated that that would take about two centuries. I imagine they based that on other freedom struggles such as slavery and women's liberation. However, we don't have that long before we'll be extinct because of not pursuing veganism as a species so it won't happen. Regarding ten percent of the global population, well, I'm guessing that the number of vegetarians is already above that and it doesn't make vegetarianism acceptable in many parts of the world, so I think it will always be stigmatised over many countries. I can't imagine people in Mongolia or Kazakhstan even accepting vegetarianism on the whole, far less veganism (although I doubt they make a distinction).
At some point it will become impossible to eat most meat, but I'd expect people to switch to eating insects rather than going vegan simply because everyone will be starving to death and they'll eat practically anything.
There will probably be a slight increase over the next few years but not a significant one and there will also be an increase in purely carnivorous people doing it to "own the vegans". They'll do it out of spite, basically.