Apparentemente, 1,6 milioni di tedeschi ora vivono lo stile di vita vegano. Questo è un numero piuttosto significativo, specialmente in un paese con una tradizione di carne così forte. Pensi che ciò sia dovuto alle tendenze sanitarie, alle preoccupazioni ambientali o qualcos’altro?
https://www.ispo.com/en/health/competitive-sports-and-vegan-eating-does-it-work
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A mix of everything. Most vegans I know do it out of ethical and environmental concerns, with ethics at the top. The health benefits are a nice bonus, but few people do it for that alone.
It’s called white woke woman. Germany got alot of them.
personally i would say, its because of the animals, health and environment aspects are good bonuspoints tho.
with inceased selection it gets easier and easier, the barrier of entry is really low nowadays.
Vegetarianism has been trendy in Germany for a century at least. Is that a strong meaty tradition?
As a foreigner here, I think part of it (besides health, ecology, ethics) is part of a (subconscious) counter-culture urge, a cultural cringe in a way. Whatever the mainstream does, because German society has a strong conformist streak, a portion will react strongly and do the opposite. You don’t see as many vegans in more relaxed ‘do whatever you want’ cultures.
Good meat is expensive
That is a bit exaggerated. About 1,47 million Germans regarded themselves as vegan in 2024. That’s a decline to 2023.
And about ten percent of Germans regard themselves as Vegetarians. But I don’t know whether that includes the vegans in the statistics.
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/445155/umfrage/umfrage-in-deutschland-zur-anzahl-der-veganer/
Being vegan is usually about animal welfare. Not so much about health trends, because vegan food doesn’t always equal healthy food. A lot of the Replacement products for meat is highly processed food.
Vegan products are much more easily accessible. Even in small towns, small discounters have options – that are actually tasty. That wasn’t always the case.
So while vegan lifestyle has been “trendy” for a while, actually being vegan is easier than ever before.
Many young people like me now start to realise how horrible meat actually is. Well not everyone, but more and more
This article is dated 2023. In 2024, the trend was lower 1.47 million, which is about 1.7% of the total population.
There are way more tasty vegan options in comparison to traditional non-vegan german cuisines.
There isn’t even any single vegan german cuisine I can think of ( and before you say anything, Kartoffelsalat is a side dish ).. even Apfelstrudel is austrian.
Yes
Generally:
Vegetarian = environment and/or health, some animal rights/ethics but they are always at risk of “but what about …”
The step to Vegan is therefore usually due to these animal rights/ethics concerns (I.e. egg industry and milk industry practices of animal mistreatments and killing)
I’m considering visiting Germany as a vegan from the U.S. Seems to have pretty good options (although I don’t know if that is limited to the big cities). I went to The Netherlands last week and it was very vegan friendly all over. Loved it.
“Healthy eating” was always a big thing in Germany, actually the who concept of “bio foods” and improving your health through food, as a concept, originated from Germany.
Health trends? Being vegan doesnt make you healthy. You cant still eat garbage food and be vegan .