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.
Humans live and let other humans live.
Bygones be bygones.
No food is free of death, no human endeavor is independent of the world. Making fields, defending fields, pesticides, harvesting fields, logistics, processing, logistics again, storage, etc... every input has some price in death, incidental or otherwise.
As far as I can estimate on a wfpb diet one vertebrate death happens every 2-9 months depending on the estimate (assuming 3kg per day of food). Make it well balanced wfpb and your importing foods globally, so that is even more logistics and fuel burn to account for in our morbid calculus.
On a zero carb carnivore diet that is one death per 16 months (one cow).
Not to mention mono-cropping isnt sustainable and the only demonstrated way, I've seen, to maintain or improve soil health requires animal inputs anyway. Either as fossil fuels, or as ruminants to graze, churn, fertilize. There is no escaping animals in a sustainable biocycle.