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.