I know what a vegetarian is, but what is a vegan?!
I know what a vegetarian is, but what is a vegan?
I'm curious.
Answers: Vegans don't eat meat, eggs, dairy, or anything that contains animal ingredients. But veganism is a lifestyle, not just what you eat. Vegans don’t wear leather, fur, or wool, buy products from companies that conduct non-required animal toxicity tests:
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Or frequent zoos, rodeos, circuses, or other places where animals are held in captivity or forced to perform.
I've been vegan since conception, and I could never imagine giving my money to companies that torture animals. My boyfriend and I eat awesome food and live awesome lives together, we just care for our health and don't fund animal torture. I've heard that vegan try not to eat anything that comes from animals in addition to not eating meat. Like no eggs or cheese, or jerky :) A vegetarian does not eat meat. A vegan, in addition to what the nice lady said above, only eats organic. Vegans are more serious than vegetarians, and are more selective. They restrict anything that comes from animals like eggs, cheese, and milk among many others in terms of diets and also products that come from animals. I'm not sure but i've heard that a vegan won't eat anything from animals not just meat like cheese, milk, eggs like that does not eat ANY animal producks a vegan is a very strict vegetarian a vegan is someone that does not eat or use anuthying that is an animal product pure vegetarian!!
one who has not touched an egg too.
i think A vegan eats foods that have no mother. Examples of food would be: eggs, dairy or fish, all have had a mother. A vegan does not eat or use any animal products, such as meat, dairy, eggs, gelatin, honey, leather, wool, silk, etc. Vegan is more like a lifestyle, whereas vegetarian is more like a diet. A vegan doesn't eat meat, seafood, dairy, or eggs. They eat a ton of organic produce. They also don't own leather. As someone who advocates a well balanced, moderate diet along with exercise and meditation, and a recenty advocate of the Flexitarian Vegetarian Diet and after reading all the crap from the absolute fanatics on the V&V---a vegan is a flexitarian vegetarian with their brains knocked out. A vegetarian (as you know) doesn't eat any meat and things like gelatin and lard. A vegan take vegetarianism up to the next level. They don't eat ANYTHING from animals. That means no cheese, eggs, butter etc. Also, most vegans don't wear any animals skins or fur. And most don't use any products tested on animals. I hope that cleared things up! The simple version:
Vegetarians don't eat any part of an animal. Vegans don't eat any part of an animal or anything that came from an animal.
Thus, vegetarians don't eat meat (defined as animal flesh) and vegans don't eat meat, dairy, eggs or honey.
You will also find that this carries over into other aspects of their lives other than just diet. Not buying clothing made from animals (leather, wool, silk, etc.), not using cosmetics with animal parts in them or that are tested on animals, etc.