Are vegetarians aloud to drink milk/eat cheese?

Question

Are vegetarians aloud to drink milk/eat cheese?

Answer 1

yes they are. vegans don't eat dairy or animal products. i'm a vegetarian and i eat cheese and like milk and stuff.

Answer 2

nope.    sorry,  you can't intake anything from animals.

Answer 3

yes but they cant eat fish or eggs

Answer 4

Yes.

any vegetarian who can't spell the word allowed needs to go back to grammar school  

Answer 5

I'd say its more a question of personal belief. I know several vegetarians who even eat fish. If I were a vegetarian I wouldn't but it's really up to you. but yeah, technically speaking vegetarians can eat animal byproducts; vegans are the ones who dont

Answer 6

yes. those who chose to exclude dairy/all animal products from their diets and daily lives are called VEGANS!

Answer 7

"Pure Vegetarians" or Vegans are those who do not eat dairy products, or any sort of animal products...(They are basically against all forms of food that come from an animal..)

Other forms of vegetarianism (such as Lacto Vegetarianism, Lacto-ovo Vegetarianism) allow and eat animal products, just not their flesh...

Answer 8

Vegetarians are ALLOWED (not aloud) to eat anything they want.

There are no veggie police that will come and arrest them

Lacto and ovo lacto Vegetarians eat cheese and drink milk if they choose to.

Vegans and ovo vegetarians do not.

Answer 9

It depends...

The definition a vegetarian states that they can't eat any meat or any flesh from a dead animal. Since milk and eggs don't kill the animal, some people eat them and still call themselves vegetarians. These people typically label themselves as lacto- (milk) or ovo- (eggs) vegetarians.

Some vegetarians are on a stricter diet and prohibit themselves to eat anything that directly came from an animal. A lot of vegetarians differ on whether they eat milk and eggs or not.

And a vegan is someone own/consume anything that came from an animal. This includes meat, milk, eggs, fish, leather, honey, wool, etc. These follow the strictest diet.

So, to answer your question it is both no and yes. As to whether they are technically allowed, they are technically allowed by the textbook definition, yet some don't consume dairy or eggs. Some vegetarians eat eggs and milk. Some once again don't eat real eggs or dairy and stick with the soy substitutes.

Hope I answered your question thoroughly enough...

Answer 10

yes, vegetarians don't eat animal flesh.

vegans don't eat anything that comes from an animal period.

Answer 11

Yes they are. How are they supposed to get dairy products then?

Answer 12

Yeah. But I know some vegetarians that don't even eat/drink animal by products.  

Answer 13

Straight vegans do not eat any meat or by product of animals (wear furs, leather, etc).  A vegetarian is someone that just avoids meats.

Answer 14

yea vegetarians can eat egg and drink milk  but they cant eat meat

vegans cant drink anything from a animal or eat anything from a animal

you might like to but google and but vegetarians to see  what they can eat or not or read books

Elvis

Answer 15

yes, but vegans usually won't. i think they usually drink soy milk. the silk soy milk actually taste pretty good.

Answer 16

Yes.  

Answer 17

Milk is considered vegetarian. Cheese can be, but often is not. The coagulating agent in many cheeses is rennet (comes from the stomach lining of an unweaned calf). Many vegetarians, however, eat it anyway.  

Answer 18

yes only vegans do that

Answer 19

They are allowed to eat and drink what ever they want, they choose not to eat or drink meats, but it is specifically vegans that do not eat milk or each cheese or anything that comes from animals.  

Answer 20

yes

Answer 21

Real vegetarians do not consume dairy products.  There is a group of people who call themselves "lacto-vegetarians," but since most cheese contains animal rennet, I think those people are hypocrites.  A person who is a vegetarian does not consume animal products.  People who don't like that have created a "splinter group" and called us "vegans," but in reality, we're the real vegetarians.

Answer 22

Yes, I believe vegans are the one that do not eat or drink any products that are made from animals.