Can you tell me if you conider these foods to be off-limits to vegetarians?

Question

Butter, eggs, milk, honey? What are some other border-line foods?

Answer 1

All those fit under the definition of Lacto-ovo Vegetarian since none of those items directly result in the death of an animal. Of course none of those are vegan since all require the exploitation of animals to produce them.

Border-line foods? Maybe this link will help:
http://www.ivu.org/faq/index.html

Answer 2

All of those are okay for vegetarians but not for vegans.

"A vegetarian is someone who has a diet, which excludes meat, poultry, game, fish and any other slaughterhouse by products."
~Vegetarian Society http://www.vegsoc.org
The above site will help you a lot if you are interested.

The tricky or borderline foods are the slaughterhouse by products. If vegetarianism is going to be difficult for a person, his or her best bet would be to start with simply not eating dead animals.

Slaughterhouse byproducts means animals had to be killed for the product. Examples are gelatin (marshmallows and jello type foods) and Mono&diglycerides (many breads and bakery)

Vegetarians can eat milk and eggs etc. because the animals do not die to give us these foods. If a person is veg for moral or environmental reasons (judging from your myspace, this may be the case), vegan (nothing that ever came from an animal) is a good ultimate goal, but it takes many people over a decade to get there.

The vegetarian society is a great resource if you or someone you know is interested in making the switch.

I put a lot of my thoughts on the issue here.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-GXLd3H0hc6klMFe3HeGqSDn7SVlgijZ53gHnrrlGNoFgNut5?list=1
I also put a lot of sources and info I found from places there to help people along.
:)

Answer 3

Vegetarians don't eat meat. This is not to say they don't eat animal products. You are confusing vegetarians with vegans, these don't eat anything made by an animal. But some extreme vegans will only eat something that is dead, E.g an apple that has fallen of a tree because they believe that pulling something off a tree is murdering it.

Answer 4

There are vegetarians that include dairy and eggs and there are vegetarians that do not. Either way, no vegetarian eats animal flesh.

I don't know what you mean by borderline foods though. If a food has any animal products that came from a dead animal, it would not be vegetarian. For example, there are many cheeses that are not vegetarian friendly because they contain and are made with enzymes from a slaughtered calves stomach..but there are cheeses made with vegetable rennet that would be fine.

Answer 5

This is just me, but I don't include butter, egg's and milk in my vegetarian diet. However I will eat cheese sometime's, just not too much.

Answer 6

you forgot cheese and any other milk product like sour cream ,whip cream,butter milk. but that and the other things you mentioned would be more for the vegans who are strict vegetarians.more moderate vegetarians will use some or all of these in their diets.><>

Answer 7

Lacto-ovo vegetarians can eat them all. Ovo vegetarians wouldn't eat milk or butter and lacto-vegetarians wouldn't eat the eggs. Vegans like myself wouldn't eat any of them.

Answer 8

A vegetarian can actually eat them, unless they are also that type of vegetarian who is lactice free (or someone allergic to milk products).

Answer 9

there are no set rules. Eat what you want. Those foods are all fine for vegetarians, but vegans wouldn't use any of them. You don't need to fit into some neat little box. There are no veggie police going to come calling if you eat something that other veggies don't. If you don't eat meat, poultry, or fish, you are vegetarian. The biggest pitfall for most people are hidden sources of meat, such as beef tallow in most fast food french fries, and hydrolized animal protein in many processed foods. I like a vegan in all aspects but I call myself a veggie because I consider milk and eggs as gifts, as long as they come from happy pampered animals

Answer 10

I'm a vegetarian, and I eat all of those. They are not off-limits to "Vegetarians" but they are to "Vegans."