@allisforall @ElliesSurviving that's interesting and not what I would have excepted, thank you. I couldn't find any similar statistics for the UK stratifying vegans by income, I was basing the assumption that percentage would corelate with income on the fact that 15% of UK households are struggling to afford food at all https://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/latest-food-insecurity-tracker-shows-seven-million-adults-going-hungry and it's pretty much impossible to support a vegan diet if you can't access fresh food, on the fact that cost and access is the main reason people
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@allisforall @ElliesSurviving have told me for not cutting down on animal products and on my own experiences of how much easier it is to follow a plant based diet now that I'm comfortably off than it was when I was struggling in my 20s and 30s. It's not even just the cost of food itself, when I was a student living in grotty shared accommodation we all clubbed together to buy wholesale beans and grains and things in bulk from the Suma warehouse which is pretty much the first money saving tip
@afewbugs @allisforall @ElliesSurviving I'd have thought that plant milk being at least double the price of cows milk would be a big deterrant to going vegan rather than vegetarian on a budget, but maybe not everyone is as reliant on tea and cereal as I am.
@GlasWolf @allisforall @ElliesSurviving on the other hand it does definitely last longer though, anecdotally I notice my colleagues with cows milk in the work fridge keep throwing bad milk out whereas I finish my cartons of soy milk
@afewbugs @allisforall @ElliesSurviving Plus UHT plant milk is hardly any different from the refrigerated stuff, and buying cows milk in small cartons nearly evens out the price differential. Nevertheless, if you go through a reasonable amount of it then going non-dairy adds a fair whack.
@GlasWolf @allisforall @ElliesSurviving that's fair, I only really have it in coffee, I have soy yoghurt on my muesli (which probably also costs more than dairy, but I have no idea how much dairy yoghurt costs nowadays and am probably happier not knowing!)
@allisforall @ElliesSurviving anyone gets. And because teh house we lived in was so poorly maintained we immediately got a massive rat infestation and had to throw it all away
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