User:Baldrick90/List of Dutch vegetarians

This is a categorised, alphabetical list of Dutch people who are known to follow a vegetarian diet, a diet that excludes all animal flesh and slaughter by-products. Similar diets include a vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, a pollotarian which includes poultry and a pescetarian which includes fish. People who follow these diets are also listed below.

The Netherlands, a wealthy Western European country, has a population of around 16.5 million people. Vegetarianism is fairly common in the Netherlands and continues to rise in popularity. A recent study has shown that the number of vegetarians grew from 560.000 in 2004 to 720.000 in 2006. The number of part time vegetarians grew rapidly as well: around 3,5 million Dutch citizens abstain from eating meat a few days a week. As a result the sales of meat substitutes increase with an annual growth of around 25%, making it one of the fastest growing product segments in the Netherlands.