What is a "true vegetarian"?!


Question: So, I thought I really had this down, but I'm finding myself confused today. Is a true vegetarian someone who doesn't eat meat or someone who doesn't eat meat, eggs, and dairy? I thought it was just not eating meat....


Answers: So, I thought I really had this down, but I'm finding myself confused today. Is a true vegetarian someone who doesn't eat meat or someone who doesn't eat meat, eggs, and dairy? I thought it was just not eating meat....

Vegetarian and Semi-Vegetarian Diets
Different people follow different forms of vegetarianism. A true vegetarian eats no meat at all, including chicken and fish. A lacto-ovo vegetarian eats dairy products and eggs, but excludes meat, fish, and poultry. It follows, then, that a lacto vegetarian eats dairy products but not eggs, whereas an ovo vegetarian eats eggs but not dairy products.

A true vegetarian doesn't eat any animal flesh (meat, fish poltry etc.). A vegan doesn't eat or use any animal products such as eggs, dairy, or leather.

A true vegetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat.
A true VEAGAN dosen't eat or wear anything that comes from an animal.

Vegans are the ones who dont eat dairy, eggs, honey etc. ANY animal or insect byproduct.

Vegetarians are will eat eggs, milk, cheese etc. Just NO meat including fish, shrimp... pretty much anything with a pulse before you eat it is out of the picture.

A vegetarian is someone who doesnt eat ANY meat at all
A VEGAN is someone who doesnt eat anything that comes from animals e.g. milk, eggs.

A true vegitarian doesnt eat meat of any animal, also not the fat either, some eat fish but they are still considered vegitarians...
(a vegan is when you dont eat any products from animals, like milk)
GO VEG HEADS!

Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products.[1] The reasons for choosing vegetarianism may be related to morality, religion, culture, ethics, aesthetics, environment, society, economy, politics, taste, or health.

There are several variants of the diet, some of which also exclude eggs and/or some products produced from animal labor such as dairy products and honey. Veganism, for example, excludes all animal products from diet. By some strict definitions, animal products are not used for attire either, whether or not the production of clothing or items has directly involved the actual death of an animal (dairy, eggs, honey, wool, silk, down feathers, etc.) [2] A generic term for both vegetarianism and veganism, as well as for similar diets, is "Plant-based diets".[3]

Properly planned vegetarian diets have been found to satisfy the nutritional needs for all stages of life, and large-scale studies have shown vegetarianism to increase longevity, improve health, and significantly lower risks of cancer and other diseases.[4][5]

A true vegetarian is a vegetarian. Vegetarians don't consume animal flesh or by products derived via the death of an animal.

A false vegetarian is someone pretending to be a vegetarian, like a "flexitarian vegetarian" or any other vegetarian that WILLINGLY consumes meat.

Someone that eats dairy and eggs may be a lacto-ovo-vegetarian but they cannot be a strict vegetarian.





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