what is the diference between a vegan and a vegetarian?

Answer 1

vegetarians eat milk, eggs and honey and vegans don't eat any animal products. They also normally don't wear leather, wool or silk.

Answer 2

A vegan stays away from all animal products, food, by products, even leather shoes, belts and other clothes made from animals. Wool also is included as a no no. Vegetarians, generally don't eat meat at all, but tend to eat some dairy products and maybe eggs. Some people even eat fish, no shell fish, and say they are vegetarians; however, a true vegetarian doesn't eat any dairy products, eggs, fish and/or any other meat, but they do ware leather products and other animal type clothing, like wool.

Answer 3

A vegetarian is someone that does not eat meat.
A vegan is a type of vegetarian, Vegans don't eat anything that was alive, anything that comes from and animal, or use anything that has animal ingredients or has been tested on and animal. They exclude meat of any kind, and don't eat eggs or dairy.
There are also Ovo- Lacto vegetarians. They are the ones that exclude meat, but eat eggs(ovo) and Dairy(Lacto), and use animals products.

Answer 4

In the past vegetarian was generally thought of being the same as lacto-ovo vegetarian, but shortened to just vegetarian. These days vegetarianism no longer refers to one type of diet/life style, rather it has become a general term to cover roughly 6 types, vegan included.

1) Pescatarian: This type abstains from all meat and animal flesh, except fish

2) Flexitarian: This is a fairly new term for those that the majority of the time follows one of the other types of vegetarian diets, but will occasionally eat meat.

3) Lacto-ovo vegetarian: This type abstains from all flesh foods, but will eat animal products such as dairy products and eggs. This type, also, has two sub-types

a) Lacto-vegetarian: Will eat dairy products but not eggs or flesh foods
b) Ovo-vegetarian: Will eat eggs, but not dairy products or flesh foods

4) Vegan: This type abstains from eating all flesh food, dairy product, eggs, and anything containing animal products or is processed using animal products, including gelatin and honey. They, also, abstain from using any thing containing animal by products such as wool, animal leather, and animal fur.

5) Raw vegan: This type follows the vegan diet and goes further by not eating any processed food and food heated above 115°F (46°C)

6) Macrobiotic: This type includes unprocessed vegan foods and occasionally fish. They avoid Sugar and refined oils.

People make the choice of follow one of these diets for different reasons: religious beliefs, health concerns, animal rights, and environmental concerns to name a few.

Answer 5

Mainly, a vegetarian doesn't eat animals (meat).

A vegan won't even eat animal products such as milk, oils made with animal fat, eggs.

Answer 6

Its to do with degrees...
Vegetarians may eat things such as eggs, cheese, yougurt, milk, honey, some eat fish and fish products too.
the may or may not wear leather, wool, silk. They might be happy using the bio washing powders and so on...
Vegans however will not eat dairy products or fish products of any kind, no eggs etc.
They also may be more careful about other things, like no animals fats in biscuits for instance (cookies), or they wont wear leather, wool or silk. I know they check products for any kind of animal products, you will find them in places that may surprise you such as in washing powder , no rennet(thickens milk and other things it comes from animal stomachs) , gelatine (from beef) and many other things.
So a vegan is like a very strict vegetarian.

I hope that helps!

Answer 7

Answer:
Vegetarian diets do not include any meat (and that means no chicken or fish). Vegan (pronounced: vee-gun) diets do not include any animal products at all--no meat, eggs or dairy products.

Answer 8

Vegetarian eats no meat.
Vegan eats no animal by products whatsoever...no milk, no cheese, no eggs, etc. (including of course, no meat)

Answer 9

A vegetarian just doesnt eat meat.
A vegan doesnt eat meat, dairy products...

Answer 10

a vegan doesnt eat any animal products a vegitarian will eat things like egg and cheese but will not eat meat