Do vegetarians stop eating dairy products as well as meat? Ive decided to become a vegetarian today.?!
Answers: vegetarians just don't eat meat but vegans don't eat any animal products (milk, eggs, cheese, meat, fish, chicken, etc.) nor wear animal products (leather, wool, casmear, etc.)
If they want to.
edit: to correct the others, NOT all vegetarians eat eggs or dairy.
vegatarians stop eating just meat such as pork beef chicken and fish vegans stop eating meat and everything that comes from animals such as milk eggs cheese and any food containing these things like carbs and even stop wearing clothes from animals like wool fur and leather.
No, you can have dairy and eggs. That's considered an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet.
It depends upon why you're choosing this.
I have a friend who will not eat any sort of meat or dairy product unless it is completely free-range raised, humanely killed, and/or wild. This is the sort of diet I follow myself.
There are other vegetarians who will eat eggs, milk, and fish from whatever source, feeling that fish probably don't have sophisticated enough nervous systems to suffer as we perceive it, and milk and fish are byproducts and not animals themselves.
Other vegetarians eat only free-range milk and egg products.
Vegans avoid all animal products altogether. Keep in mind that when you do that, you need to find other sources for vitamin B12 and iron, and the human body does not absorb plant-based versions of these vitamins very well at all.
Jains eat only plant products that fall naturally from tree or vine, and meticulously plant the seeds and compost any waste when they are done.
The majority of people who identify themselves as vegetarian are lacto-ovo-vegetarian, meaning they eat dairy and eggs. Lacto-vegetarians eat dairy, but not eggs and ovo-vegetarians eat eggs, but not dairy. The only thing you need to give up to be a vegetarian is meat and ingredients from slaughtered animals; the egg and dairy question is up to you.
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/definitions.h...
Perhaps you could just don't eat meat, but dairy and eggs. At least at the beginning and then if you want, leave dairy and eggs.
Well done!