Is there room for hundreds of vegetarian and explicitly vegan organizations in every large city in No America?

Question

Recent history has shown that, when one group tries to supplant or supplement another, either group declines and fails, or both groups fail. Perhaps we've reached a new day in the consciousness and presence of vegetarians, and certainly NO group or set of organizers/administrators/values can appeal to all persons practicing vegetarian diets any more than PETA does or could speak for all pro-animal vegetarians.

Answer 1

Locally or regionally, this may be true but the 'every large city' part is pretty obviously untrue. Non-meat lifestyles are not very well established, for example, in the traditional heavy beef states of the midwest.

Another piece of evidence that this is not quite the right time for this nationally is the recent buy out of Wild Oats by Whole Foods- an indication that the market place is not supporting a broad base of organic chains.

Maybe I am missing something, but if non-meat movements were really doing well, I would expect to see vegetarian restaurants doing very well, and I do not. i would expect to see more mainstreaming of the lifestyle, and while it is there, it is not very strong.

I think it is doing well, but not quite to the level of needing or being well-served by several large movements.