What's the difference between vegetarian and vegan?

Question

What really is a vegan?

Answer 1

Vegetarians do not eat meat (beef, chicken) or fish.
Vegans do not eat meat, fish, or any animal products such as honey, milk, ice cream, or wear leather shoes etc.

Vegans are more strict than vegetarians.

Answer 2

What's the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan?
Vegetarians, or lacto-ovo-vegetarians, do not eat any meat products, but they eat dairy products and eggs. Vegetarians need to know whether a product contains gelatine or other meat-based products. Vegans do not consume any animal products.

Labelling: the "V" symbol
In Britain, The Vegetarian Society's V "approved by the Vegetarian Society" symbol is found on products that conform to the Society's criteria for approved foods. The Vegetarian Society has announced that genetically modified ingredients will not be allowed in foods that have the Vegetarian Society's symbol of approval, apart from the use of genetically engineered chymosine, which is an enzyme used in place of calf's rennet in the manufacture of cheese.

Answer 3

Vegetarians, or lacto-ovo vegetarians, cannot eat beef, poultry, fish, birds, pork, or any other animal body part. They also cannot eat gelatin or lard, or wear clothing that is made of real silk, leather or other animal fabrics. Vegans are considerably stricter. They are everything that a vegetarian is, but they cannot consume honey, dairy, eggs, cheese or anything else related to animals. Neither vegetarians nor vegans can use camera film, as it s coated with gelatin (a big word for animal bones). The best way to cook food for a vegetarian is to cook vegan foods, as some vegetarians are half vegetarian half vegan, and some vegetarians do eat fish. If you want to cook for a vegetarian/vegan, go to http://www.vegcooking.com/ or do a search at http://www.petasearch.org/.

Answer 4

A vegan is a subclass of vegetarian. Rather, they are considerably stricter vegetarians.

In addition to not eating meat, vegans don't eat ANYTHING of animal origin such as dairy products and eggs, and some vegans do not even USE animal products such as furs, leather, ivory etc.

(How awful... No vegetarian pizza for those dudes!)

Answer 5

VEGAN: Eats no flesh or anything else that comes from a living creature. The exception seems to be Honey. Which is very pro or con in the Vegan world.

Answer 6

It's very simple....Vegetarian is a person who doesn't eat meat.

Vegan is a person who doesn't eat meat and
dairy products or anything that comes from
animals.

Answer 7

Vegans dont eat anything from an animal. Examples are meat, eggs, milk, cheese, etc.

Answer 8

Vegetarians do not eat any kinds of meat, but will eat products produced by living animals.such as milk eggs and cheese.
Vegans only eat things produced by plants fruits, vegetables, nuts grains things like that. They do not eat anything produced by animals. It makes me wonder if they breast feed their babies

Answer 9

vegetarians dont eat me but do eat dairy products
vegans dont like any product that comes from an animals like milk, cheese and leather.

Answer 10

no egg for vegan but it's OK for vegetarian