2007-07-03 09:14:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Vegetarians dont eat animals...period.
2007-07-04 01:20:33 · answer #1 · answered by KathyS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is something that is said to make it more apparent as to what a vegetarian will and won't eat. It's not a 'rule' or a hard and fast statement as to what a person "can not" eat.
TO directly answer your question, a vegetarian can eat anything that they want to. No vegetarian police will come and arrest a wayward vegetarian. However, if a vegetarian ate clams, they would no longer be a vegetarian.
2007-07-03 16:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It really comes down to biological taxonomy where eating living organisms in the Animal Kingdom (Animalia) is not vegetarian.
Of course, you have vegetarians that still eat meat, but they aren't true vegetarians. Those are just people that want to be part of a crowd and like the attention they get for being a "vegetarian".
The "not eating anything with a face" analogy is just a simple explaination, but some people still don't get it. Do you?
2007-07-03 16:23:04 · answer #3 · answered by Dave C 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Clams have faces.
But that's not the rule; it's that we cannot eat any Sentient Creatures.
P.S. ~ You're NOT a vegetarian if you eat CHICKEN or SEAFOOD!!!
2007-07-03 22:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by Cognitive Dissident ÜberGadfly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you are mistaken. Vegetarians can eat anything they like...... lobsters, clams, cows, chickens.....
It has nothing to do with can't do this or can't do that......
It is a simple matter of don't want to by choice.... not can't.
2007-07-03 18:21:15 · answer #5 · answered by SST 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thier are different kinds of Vegitarians. The people who don't eat anything with a face are called Vegans
2007-07-03 20:13:41 · answer #6 · answered by Megan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A pescatarian would eat seafood, a vegetarian does not. No creatures of any kind if you are a veggie.
2007-07-03 16:21:08 · answer #7 · answered by beebs 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its not that they dont eat anything with a face, its that they don't eat any meat, which would include clams.
However it depends on how strict a vegetarian they are.
For me, I eat eggs, but no meat and no dairy.
2007-07-03 16:23:07 · answer #8 · answered by RP 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I always say, "I don't eat anything with a face or that makes it's own home." :-) Covers anything alive that's not a plant.
2007-07-03 17:04:35 · answer #9 · answered by tonialmo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it all depends on what kind of vegetarian you are. I'm an ovolacto (i think thats how you spell it) vegetarian, which is no meat but I'll eat dary and eggs. there's even a kind of vegetarian that eats chicken and fish!!!!!
2007-07-03 16:37:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋