That puts us at 0.006% of the global population. How did I arrive at 500k? I kinda made it up based on carnivore study populations, but its super duper tiny. I looked everywhere, I can't really find a solid estimate. But we are totally in the dozens of us category.
I NEVER meet another zero carb carnivore anywhere organically. Plus there is huge stigma for being a carnivore. EVERYONE thinks I'm crazy.
- Omnivore - 73% - 6,000M
- Flexitarian - 14% - 1,100M
- Vegetarian - 5% - 400M
- Pescatarian - 3% - 250M
- Vegan - 3% - 250M
- Zero Carb Carnivore - 0.006% - 0.5M
Using ipsos (broad strokes good enough) for the other eating pattern data
It's fine to be a minority group. Live and let live.
There are some people who simply cannot suffer us in our little corner of the internet at all. My poor little community script runs every day and bans many accounts for just downvoting all the posts in the community. https://discuss.online/modlog/696952
I've dug into the many of the non-obvious-sockpuppet accounts, and it seems most of the hate directed at us comes from our nearest neighbor at 3% total population. A group 500x more popular.
I really wish we could just be friends, let's agree that whole foods, totally unprocessed is good, and leave each other alone as allies in improving everyone's health. I'd like that. This childish animosity doesn't help anyone.
Perhaps this is just the cost of being a small fringe eating pattern, easy target for other less small groups to hate.
Eyeballing daily active users on the fediverse it looks like we have about 7,000 unique users every day. There are about 3 carnivores - which puts us at 0.04% of the lemmy population.
If I may:
I'm sure you've heard these phrases before "Exercise is medicine." - I ran 5km every other day and would swim for an hour on the days I wasn't running. "Calories in, calories out." I was doing portion control, intermittent fasting, etc.
You'd think I'd been really healthy, right? But I had fatty liver and I decided to do something about it. Long story short, carnivore's what worked.
I was for a while, but not really any more. I do really enjoy dairy but I can't seem to process it that well and it gives me constipation, so I only drink a little milk now. I do drink tea and if I'm out with friends I have been known to eat some carbs to be polite!
I think craving is different on carnivore. I don't think about food at all when I'm not hungry. It's liberating. Like Jet said, it's more of an addiction. If you put dairy in front of me I can't resist it, I don't think.
Thanks for the thorough reply, you guys are quite interesting to me. Not really trying to become a carnivore myself, but as jet said, live and let live, and hopefully learn about different perspectives on life. I’ll come back to this when I have more time if it’s ok for you guys. I got so many more questions haha
Oh yeah a bag of string cheese.... Gone in the blink of an eye!