[genewitch]

has your government published any science on this? being completely serious, i'd like to read it. Is India mostly vegetarian because of lack of access to farms/meats, religious reasons, financial, or what? I didn't know it was largely vegetarian. I don't know i had an idea of the ratio or that it would be different than any other country.

Apparently the Mediterranean also is largely vegetarian. at least the eponymous diet is.

[simiones]

Most branches of hinduism condemn meat eating, so this has created a significant pressure against meat production (same as you'll find little production of pork in the Middle East and North Africa). This is not universal, of course, because historically many regions of India had large meat-eating muslim populations as well.

Note that this is typically lacto-ovo-vegetarianism, not veganism.

[galangalalgol]

Maybe home cooking is, but every restaurant meal I bhave eaten near the Mediterranean had seafood or cheese in it.

Edit: you said vegetarian not vegan, and yeah lot of pasta dishes are vegetarian but not vegan.