Kinds of vegetarians?!
Kinds of vegetarians?
What kinds of vegetarians are there?
Answers:
This question has a lot of misinformation spread about it... mostly from non-vegetarian sources. Vegetarianism seems to be an enigma to many meat eaters, so they begin saying thing like "vegetarians can eat animals."
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This is why it is best to stick to vegetarian sources, organizations and societies.
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A vegetarian is one who does not consume animals or slaughterhouse byproducts. A byproduct is something an animal had to die for, like gelatin (skin, bones and tendons.)
1.) Ovo-Lacto-Vegetarian: One who does not consume animals or slaughterhouse byproducts, but will eat eggs and dairy
2.) Ovo-Vegetarian: eggs, but no dairy
3.) Lacto-Vegetarian: dairy, but no eggs
4.) Vegan- One who does not consume animals or animal byproducts. This person also does not consume any product that comes from or is created by animals such as dairy, cheese, honey or eggs or the byproducts of them. This person also does not wear or use products made from or tested on animals.
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Those are the only types of vegetarians. People who do not understand what vegetarianism is try to include chicken or fish, but chicken and fish are animals, and vegetarians do not eat animals of any kind.
One who eats some animals, and one who eats no animals are mutually exclusive.
People who eat chicken and fish only are making great progress, but they are not vegetarians; they are "meat-reducers.
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http://www.vegsoc.org/newveg/fft/basics....
http://www.goveg.com/vegetarian101.asp...
http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/faq.htm#type...
There are 5 kinds of vegetarians: I cannot remember the full names on them eg: lacto etc> check in a vegetarian book and you will probably find the answers. Another source could be the American heart association. Good luck and it is just amazing how the vegetarians are broken into these five groups:
eg: no dairy
no meats except fish
no cheese
See where I am going with this
check out this link - it tells you exactly how many different types there are and what each type eats
http://www.msu.edu/user/daenzerr/rd491/t...
Wikipedia is a good source.
Theres Lacto, Ovo, Lacto-ovo, Pesco, those are the ones I can remember.
Vegan- Doesn't eat meat, fish or milk or eggs
Pescatarian- Doesn't eat meat but eats fish milk and eggs
Vegetarian- Doesn't eat meat, but drinks milk and eats eggs
No vegetarian eats fish, so ignore that post above... a pescetarian is not any type of vegetarian...period.
No vegetarian eats anything from a dead animal..however, some will eat eggs and dairy.
Some of us are against factoy farming which forces animals to live in torture until they are killed, but have no ethical problem with natural meat that was killed in the wild, like: moose, deer, waterfowl, grouse, rabbit, and fish. Some people only buy from small scale organic farmers whose animals live good lives before they are slaughtered. That's the way it was meant to be. Factory farming is disgusting in so many ways..
lacto-ovo- no animal flesh (or byproducts) but eggs and dairy
lacto- no animal flesh, but dairy
ovo- no animal flesh but eggs
vegan- no animal products whatsoever (lifestyle opposed to diet above)
fruitarian- eats only fruit, some eat only fallen fruit
breathatarian- only breathes, (and shortly dies I suspect.)
There are also raw foodists that are vegan or fruitarian and possibly ovo-lacto as well.
Fruitarians and breathatarians are specialized forms of vegans.
There are 3 ways to figure this one. The first is the usual which is vegan (true vegetarians), ovo, lacto, pesci, etc.
The second is by motivation, which is why did they become
vegetarians. One is health reasons - they believe vegetarian diets are healthier. Others became vegetarians because of animal cruelty issues. And then there is the religious category and then the personal category which is "I became a vegetarian because the girl or guy I like is a vegetarian" or some other funny reason. The 3rd way to figure out what kinds is just to say there are 3 kinds - true vegetarians that eat only fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, semi-vegetarians that eat some fish, egg, dairy, or meat now and then, and then there are the fake vegetarians - the ones that claim to be vegetarians and continue to eat junk food.
there are many types of vegetarians. to name a few:
1) just talking about vegetarians, you can use the prefix "ovo" meaning that that vegetarian eats eggs "lacto" meaning consumes milk, "pollo" meaning consumes chicken and "pesco" meaning eats fish. you can use a combanation of any of the previous prefixes. eg: ovo-lacto vegetarian is a vegetarian that eats eggs and milk
2)vegan: person who doesnt eat any type of meat or product that comes from an animal including milk, eggs and honey
3)fruitarian: doesnt eat absolutely anything besides nuts and fruit that has fallen off the tree because they beleive that fruit have feelings to
4) raw veganism: in addition to being a vegan, they dont eat anything cooked