Are Vegetarians & Vegans the same thing? if not whats the difference?

Answer 1

The simple answer is this:
* Vegetarians- don't eat anything an animal had to die for (a fish is an animal, and gelatin is similar to a hot dog.)
* Vegans- don't eat OR use anything that came from an animal, or was tested on an animal, even if the animal didn't die.

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Here are the specific definitions:
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A vegetarian is someone living on a diet of grains, pulses, nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits with or without the use of dairy products and eggs.

A vegetarian does not eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, or slaughter by-products.

Types of Vegetarian
* Lacto-ovo-vegetarian. Eats both dairy products and eggs. This is the most common type of vegetarian diet.

* Lacto-vegetarian. Eats dairy products but not eggs.

* Vegan. Does not eat dairy products, eggs, or any other animal product.
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Here is a link to The Vegetarian Society
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Answer 2

I want to stress the point that vegetarians DO NOT eat eggs or fish! There is a form of vegetarian called an ovo vegetarian that do eat eggs, but there is NO type of vegetarian that eats fish. And yes there is a difference between vegans and vegetarians. From the encyclopedia Britannica online here is a definition of vegetarianism.

The theory or practice of living solely upon vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts—with or without the addition of milk products and eggs—generally for ethical, ascetic, environmental, or nutritional reasons. All forms of flesh (meat, fowl, and seafood) are excluded from all vegetarian diets, but many vegetarians use milk and milk products; those in the West usually eat eggs also, but most vegetarians in India exclude them, as did those in the Mediterranean lands in Classical times. Vegetarians who exclude animal products altogether (and likewise avoid animal-derived products such as leather, silk, and wool) are known as vegans. Those who use milk products are sometimes called lacto-vegetarians, and those who use eggs as well are called lacto-ovo vegetarians. Among some agricultural peoples, flesh eating has been infrequent except among the privileged classes; such people have rather misleadingly been called vegetarians.

Answer 3

Vegetarians don't eat meat but might eat eggs and drink milk. Vegans are vegetarians who also don't use eat or use anything which comes from an animal.


Additional: Fish is meat, as well as is any seafood, reptile, bird, insect, etc. Any fleshy part of an animal is meat. That first person is wrong. Vegetarians do not eat fish. And any eggs they do consume are non-fertilized.

Answer 4

The definitions of both words differ from many people based on what their diet is. For me and from what I understand, someone who is vegetarian will not eat meat and gelatin (it comes from animals), but will have dairy products. A vegan generally folllows a rule of "if it came from something that has eyes, it's not to be eaten." That excludes meat, dairy products, anything with gelatin, any animal by-product.

Answer 5

Vegetarians eat no animal flesh--and last time I checked, chicken and fish are animals--gelatin, or rennet. Basically, if the animal has to die to obtain it, the vegetarian does not eat it.

Vegans avoid all animal products not just in diet, but in lifestyle. Vegans avoid animal flesh, slaughter byproducts, milk and dairy, eggs, honey, beeswax, propolis, carmine (a red dye made by crushing cochineal beetles), silk, wool, leather, and fur. They avoid buying products that are tested on animals and will not go to zoos or circuses. Basically, veganism is a lifestyle where one strives to avoid animal exploitation.

Answer 6

No they're not. Vegetarians can eat the dairy and eggs and stuff but vegans totally cut off ANYTHING that comes from animals.

Answer 7

Wow, you got some weird answers (vegetarians can have the odd burger? and vegans eat cheese? huh?)

Vegetarians do not eat the flesh of any dead animal and they do not eat slaughter byproducts (gelatin, rennet) but may opt t include eggs and/or dairy products. The prefix lacto- refers to dairy and the prefix ovo-refers to eggs, so some vegetarians refer to themselves as lacto-ovo-vegetarians or lacto-vegetarians to make it clear what they eat and what they don't.

Veganism is the choice not to eat, drink, wear or use any products of animal origin. Vegans do not eat flesh, dairy, eggs, honey and don't wear leather, wool or silk.

NO vegetarian of ANY type eats fish or chicken.

Answer 8

they are very different. vegans eat no animal products while vegitatians usually eat dary to. you can look up the different levels of vegetarinaism.

Answer 9

No, they aren't the same. Some vegetarians will eat fish, eggs, and cheese, but no other meats. A vegetarian I know won't eat any fish but will use eggs, dairy, and cheese. However, a vegan told me he won't touch anything animal based. No meat, no eggs, no cheese, nothing.

Answer 10

No. Vegetarians eat fish, eggs, and dairy products. Vegans do not eat fish and NOTHING from an animal.