Calling all Vegetarians!?

Question

hi! i was wondering, if you were to become a vegetarian, would that mean you cant have any MILK, any EGGS or any CHEESE?
i thought vegetarians meant that you dont eat any ANIMALS........
yah um i heard from this guy who said that you cant eat milk eggs and stuff like that

Answer 1

Vegetarians, as a whole, do not eat red meat. Some also choose to exclude poultry (pollo-veg) and/or seafood (pesco-veg). Because chicken and fish are indeed meat, it's debatable whether most would call it vegetarianism, but they are accepted forms.

Many veg's, in additon to actual flesh, eliminate non-meat animal products like gelatin and caesin. It varies a lot, though.

Drop all meat, but eat eggs and dairy, you're "lacto-ovo-vegetarian"
Drop all dairy products, and eat eggs, you're "ovo-vegetarian"
Drop eggs in all forms, but consume dairy, you're "lacto-vegetarian"

No eggs OR dairy, plus, no non-meat animal products, including honey, and you're, by definition, "vegan".

Go even further, and eat only plants and plant products (nothing grown with bacteria), and you're "macrobiotic" *please note, some macrobiotics DO eat meat. There's more to the philosophy than being non-meat-eaters. So, it's not technically a form of vegetarianism*

Vow not to cook your food, or do anything but pick and eat, and you're "raw-vegan", "raw-macrobiotic", or just "raw".

SO, to answer your question, there are, in fact, EIGHT forms af vegetarianism. (macro's don't count) pollo, pesco, pollo-pesco, ovo, lacto, lacto-ovo, vegan, and raw.

Answer 2

I am a vegetarian, not a vegan, but I do avoid dairy products and I prefer free-range eggs. The only exception I make for dairy products is when there's milk or butter as an ingredient in cakes or chocolates that I do eat, but otherwise I do not consume dairy products at all. Eventually I would like to progress into a vegan or at least ovo-vegetarian diet (as long as the eggs are free range) but right now I don't have many vegan alternatives to common pastry available and I feel good enough that my diet does not provoke the unnecessary deaths of animals and helps minimize animal exploitation. I also don't go to animal circuses, I avoid buying products of brands that test on animals or engage in any kind of cruel acts against animals and I do not use clothes of animal origin such as leather and suede, for example, but I may on very rare occasions wear some wool, although never wool of sheep that were killed for it.

So, to answer your question, I have not completely excluded dairy products and eggs from my diet and yes, I am a vegetarian.

Answer 3

Depends on the type of vegetarian.

A vegan will abstain from all animal products, including milk.

I know vegetarians who have no problems with milk products (as the milk does not harm the animal) but they won't eat egg.

Some vegetarians will eat egg and fish!

So it all depends how vegetarian you are!

Answer 4

I am a vegetarian though not a pure one, i do eat eggs, u can definitely consume milk or milk products but not meat or fish. You are right, vegetarian means that u don't eat animals.

Answer 5

i'm considered a vegetarian, but i include some dairy products and some eggs. eggs to a lesser degree. i could probably cut those out completely if i wanted to also.

vegans on the other hand eliminate all that.

i know it sounds kinda screwed up for a vegetarian to consume things that aren't vegetation, but some people feel the need to label everything even if it's not completely accurate. non-meat-eater works just as well i think. lol.

Answer 6

My dad does this and that i've got continuously had a sprint a controversy with it; so I asked him. He says that he will consume fish because of the fact that's not the eating of meat he products to however the way that meat is obtained. He believes the business meat/slaughtering employer is inherently merciless, which I probable believe - inspite of efforts being made into stress loose abbatoirs the only thank you to make a slaughterhouse right into a happy place is to eliminate the "S". Fishing on, the different hand, frequently ability that the nutrients became taken from a organic existence interior the wild and did no longer go through unduly earlier dying. it fairly is obviously arguable. Oh, and that i in basic terms like to consume meat by ability of how. Does this make me a hypocrite or do i might desire to ask my own question?

Answer 7

he's wrong..
you can eat eggs and dairy products and still be a vegetarian..
thats what you call being a lacto ovo vegetarian
but if you eat only eggs youre called an ovo vegetarian and if you eat only dairy products youre called lacto vegetarian

Answer 8

most veggies don't eat meat but will eat fish or and chicken. It's vegans who don't eat any meat including fish and chicken and they also wont eat any animal by products such as eggs and milk.

Answer 9

That is the definition of vegan. Vegetarian just means you don't eat anything that had a face.

Answer 10

your friend described a Vegan. we don't eat meat, as well abstaining from milk, eggs, butter, cheese, cream, etc.