Daily Mail, UK - Researchers from the animal rights group Humane Research Council ... surveyed more than 11,000 adults in the U.S. and found that two per cent were currently vegetarians and 88 per had always eaten meat or fish.
Another 10 per cent had formerly followed a plant based diet but had gone back to eating meat.
They discovered that the average age to first adopt a vegetarian diet is 34.
A large majority of former vegetarians (65 per cent) said they transitioned to a veg diet quickly, in a matter of days or weeks.
The most popular reason for becoming a vegetarian was to be healthy, with 58 per cent of people saying this was their main motivation.
Researchers said the numbers of people going back to eating meat after trying a plant-based diet was 'disappointing' and so they wanted to investigate why the former vegetarians might have lapsed.
Most (63 per cent) said that they disliked that their diet made them stick out from the crowd.
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