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.
Ok but it feels like you're being purposefully obtuse.
You know why vegans are hating on you, right? To them it's like you get a rash all the time, but you find out as long as you stomp on 3 puppies a day, you won't break out. Then you're upset because people are yelling at you to stop stomping on puppies.
In the gentlest way I can put this, that's a very unfair comparison. It's more that we've discovered that the rash is caused by eating plants, and so we've decided to stop. Wouldn't you?
I personally find it very sad that to think that we are being vilified and compared to people who'd stomp on puppies, just because we've decided to be do what we've needed to do to be healthy.
Yeah, but they also hate 98% of the world too for the same reason. I'd prefer they hate me over there in their 75 lemmy communities, no need to come here to do it.
pointing out a minority group, that is 500x the size of a super minority group, is abusing structural privilege to brigade and censor.. and just demonstrating it isn't neighborly or consistent with lemmy norms... that is a fairly muted and mellow response.