{"id": 1205653, "name": "Dietary choices and meat-eating - Share of respondents that answered 'Somewhat agree'", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2026-03-02T13:57:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-03-02T13:57:00.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2017-2025", "datasetId": 7398, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "dietary_choices_and_meat_eating__somewhat_agree", "catalogPath": "grapher/survey/2026-03-02/animals_food_and_technology/animals_food_and_technology#dietary_choices_and_meat_eating__somewhat_agree", "descriptionShort": "Weighted share of survey respondents selecting a response.", "type": "float", "datasetName": "Animals, Food, and Technology", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-03-02", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Somewhat agree", "unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Dietary choices and meat-eating - Share of respondents that answered 'Somewhat agree'"}, "descriptionKey": ["The survey has been repeated in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2025, with 7,165 participants across six waves. Responses are weighted to be representative of the US population.", "The questions related to dietary choices and meat-eating are:\n- \"I am currently trying to consume fewer animal-based foods (meat, dairy, and/or eggs) and more plant-based foods (fruits, grains, beans, and/or vegetables).\"\n- \"People should consume fewer animal-based foods (meat, dairy, and/or eggs) and more plant-based foods (fruits, grains, beans, and/or vegetables).\"\n- \"People should consume fewer plant-based foods (fruits, grains, beans, and/or vegetables) and more animal-based foods (meat, dairy, and/or eggs).\"\n- \"When cultured meat, dairy, and egg foods are the same price as conventional foods, I would prefer to eat more cultured foods and fewer conventional foods.\"\n- \"When cultured meat, dairy, and egg foods are the same price as conventional foods, people should eat more cultured foods and fewer conventional foods.\"\n- \"When plant-based meat, dairy, and egg foods are the same price as conventional foods, I would prefer to eat more plant-based foods and fewer conventional foods.\"\n- \"When plant-based meat, dairy, and egg foods are the same price as conventional foods, people should eat more plant-based foods and fewer conventional foods.\"\n- \"Whether to eat animals or be vegetarian is a personal choice, and nobody has the right to tell me which one they think I should do.\""], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2017}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2025}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 372646, "name": "At equal prices, I would prefer more cultured meat", "code": null}, {"id": 372641, "name": "At equal prices, I would prefer more plant-based foods", "code": null}, {"id": 372648, "name": "At equal prices, people should eat more cultured meat", "code": null}, {"id": 372636, "name": "At equal prices, people should eat more plant-based foods", "code": null}, {"id": 372638, "name": "I am trying to eat fewer animal-based foods", "code": null}, {"id": 372643, "name": "People should eat fewer animal-based foods", "code": null}, {"id": 372637, "name": "People should eat fewer plant-based and more animal-based foods", "code": null}, {"id": 367416, "name": "To eat animals or be vegetarian is a personal choice", "code": null}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 14116, "title": "Animals, Food, and Technology", "description": "This data is from a cross-sectional survey on attitudes towards animals, food, and technology run by the [Sentience Institute](https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/). Each sample was recruited in partnership with [Ipsos](https://www.ipsos.com/) based on census estimates from the [American Community Survey](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs). The survey has been conducted, with minor changes, in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2025, with 7165 participants across the six survey waves. The survey and analysis code associated with this dataset can be found at [OSF](https://osf.io/a4qjg/).", "producer": "Sentience Institute", "citationFull": "Sentience Institute. Anthis, Jacy Reese; Ladak, Ali (2025), \u201cAnimals, Food, and Technology (AFT) Survey 2017-2021\u201d, Mendeley Data, V2, doi: 10.17632/k3xcndsswk.2", "urlMain": "https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/k3xcndsswk/2", "urlDownload": "https://data.mendeley.com/public-files/datasets/k3xcndsswk/files/142c0c80-2ce8-49eb-b9ad-b28d564edb98/file_downloaded", "dateAccessed": "2026-03-02", "datePublished": "2025-12-29", "license": {"url": "https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/k3xcndsswk/2", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}