Jonathan Safran Foer Says 18% College Students Vegetarian
Written by Vegetarian Star on September 16th, 2010 in Authors, Books, Food & Drink, Research + Science.
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Jonathan Safran Foer is on tour to promote his only work of non-fiction, Eating Animals, a book that explores factory farming and vegetarianism.
Foer’s stop at Harvard was accompanied by an interview with the The Crimson, where Foer gave a statistic about who’s going meatless in the college population.
“Eighteen percent of college students describe themselves as vegetarians,” Foer said. “There are more vegetarians than Catholics in college. In college campuses, it is so unremarkable to be a vegetarian. It’s a kind of aspirational identity. That’s the reason to be most hopeful.”
Foer’s stats sound right on target. Cookbook Digest gave a slightly higher figure of 20%. And a study conducted in 2008 by Vegetarian Times found the diet is highest in the 18-34 age group, this age group representing 42% of the 7.3 million vegetarians in America alone. Ithaca College’s veggie population at 6-7% is below the college average, but still above the national of 2.3% of the U.S. population.
Being vegetarian in college may have its stumbling blocks (how are you going to cook a full meal in a microwave in that hole in the wall known as a dorm room?), but two guides that have recently been published may give students “hope,” taking the guesswork out of healthy living and add humor to your cooking routine.
We featured The Dorm Room Diet book as a giveaway a couple of weeks ago. It’s a book filled with recipes, but much more. Daphne Oz, the daughter of the famous daytime TV show host and cardiosurgeon, Dr. Oz (who happened to graduate from the same university Foer attended–Princeton) gives background for why meat and junk food is so much cheaper to tips for bringing better quality food to your university.
On a lighter note, PETA’s Vegan College Cookbook contains 275 recipes for easy to make dishes with names that keep a twenty-something with too much freedom excited like Silence of the Lamb’s Shepherd’s Pie, “I’m Like, So Easy!” Blueberry Pancakes, Party In Your Mouth Punch, Nacho Momma’s Cheez Dip and Dropout Sphaghetti.
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