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The term vegan was once not as famous as today, but is veganism actually growing, or is it just a trend that people are talking about more?

Well, the short answer is ‘Yes it is growing at a rapid rate. Just how much is it growing is something we’ll see below.

According to google trends

According to Google in the past few years, there’s been a big jump in the number of searches for the word vegan.

This number peaked in 2020 and is still on an upward trajectory.

Another interesting search term that also saw a rise was ‘vegan food near me.’

This just shows us that way more people are inclined to eat plant-based food even though they are vegan or not. In we can also see that there is more demand for plant-based foods around the world. Which should help business owners realize that adding plant-based options would only benefit them.

Increase in global vegans

• A survey showed that there’s been a 600% increase in vegans in the last three years in the U.S.A. Making a total of 6% of the U.S population to be vegan. This number was just 1% three years ago.

• There’s been an increase of 350% in people identifying themselves as vegans in the U.K.

• Even the new food guidelines in Canada support a plant-based diet.

• The new dietary guidelines in china also urge people to reduce meat consumption, with around 1.3 billion people reducing their meat consumption by 50%.

• In Australia products carrying a vegan claim rose by 92% from 2014 to 2016. Making it the third-fasted vegan market in the world.

Global plant-based milk consumption on the rise

By 2024 the global plant-based milk market is expected the reach around $21.52. There’s a huge rise in plant-based milk’s around the globe with a variety of milk like Almond, oats, soy, pea, coconut, cashew, macadamia, hemp, flax, and rice, etc.

Vegan Restaurants are on the rise

We can see a huge rise in vegan options in restaurants in recent years this is partly because of the market reacting to the demand from consumers.

Quorn morningstar farms, Beyond meat, and Impossible foods made it a lot easier for meat-eater to find an alternative option in a fast-food market.

Quorn’s Imposter burger that was added in KFC, Del Tacos Beyond Burritos, White castle’s Impossible sliders, Burger King’s Impossible Whopper, and Carl’s Jr.’s charbroiled Beyond Famous Star are just a few famous options that the western world provides.

Many new restaurants are strictly vegan, like Paperbark in Sydney, Australia, Original Sin in Singapore, The Ravens in California, U.S.A, Växthuset in Stockholm, Sweden, and many more that can be found here.

You can also find local restaurants, cafes that serve vegan food around the world with Happy Cow. The Vegan industry is on a huge rise and it’s getting easier to find vegan foods around the world.

What to expect?

Veganism isn’t going anywhere, it’s just getting stronger with time. Due to the Covid pandemic, many people have started shifting to a plant-based lifestyle to avoid these zoonotic diseases.

We’ll see a lot more vegans in the future as the population grows and animal farming becomes more and more unsustainable to us.

With the rise of plant-derived meat alternatives, the conversion to a plant-based lifestyle will become a lot easier with time.

People who realize how easy and healthy this lifestyle is will be making the change quickly and stick to it and more and more people are realizing this as time goes by.