What's the difference between a "vegeterian" and a "vegan"... or are they the same thing?

Question

What's the difference between a "vegeterian" and a "vegan"... or are they the same thing?

Answer 1

Vegetarians don't eat animals

Vegans are vegetarians who also refuse to eat anything that comes from an animal, that includes all dairy, eggs, and even honey (it comes from bees)

there's even another level to this called "fruititarians" who will only eat plant products that have fallen naturally from the tree, that way they don't have to worry about harming those living creatures.

Answer 2

Vegans and vegetarians are different.

On a dietary level, a vegan does NOT eat animals, eggs, slaughter by products and dairy. Vegans avoid any food derived from an animal, including honey. However, veganism encompasses much more than a diet- it is a lifestyle too- the giving up of animal products, such as leather.

Vegetarians don't eat animals, but can eat dairy and/or eggs.

OVO LACTO vegetarians eat dairy and eggs.

OVO vegetarians eat eggs, but no dairy

A VEGAN eats nothing that is animal-derived.

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Answer 3

Vegetarians abstain from eating animal flesh.  This includes meat and gelatin.

Vegans abstain from eating and using any/all animal ingredients, including meat, eggs, dairy, honey, and gelatin as well as products like leather, suede, fur, silk, and wool.  Vegans also use personal care products which contain no animal ingredients and are not tested on animals.

Cheers!

Answer 4

vegeterian- no meat

vegan- no animal products at all

Answer 5

a vegetarian is when you dont eat meat, but eat dairy.

a vegan is when you dont eat meat AND dairy products, like eggs or milk.

Answer 6

They are diffrent. Vegatarians eat everything but meat.

Vegans do not eat any meat or animal related food like milk, eggs, honey ect. And also don't use animal products like leather or wool, even certain shoes, sugars and stuff because theres animal products hidden in many things.

Hope I helped clear it up for you.

Answer 7

Vegetarians don't eat meat. Vegans don't eat or use anything from or tested on animals (dairy, eggs, fur, silk, honey, etc).

Answer 8

Vegan: someone who doesnt eat any meat, and dairy products. cheese, milk, yogurt, etc.

Vegetarian: someone who doesnt eat any meat absolutely at alll.

They are totally different in some wayss.

There is the answer.

Answer 9

vegans dnt eat any animal products including milk, eggs, cheese, etc. vegitarians do.

Answer 10

Vegetarians don't eat foods from dead animals (meat, slaughter byproducts.)

Vegans don't eat anything of animal origin, whatsoever, regardless of whether or not the animal died for it.

Vegetarianism can be either a diet or a lifestyle, at the choosing of the individual vegetarian.  Veganism, by definition, implies a moral concern for animals and extends beyond diet.  Vegans don't wear animal fabrics, use consumer goods like makeup and toiletries that are made with animal ingredients or animal testing, and don't support industries that exploit animals for entertainment, like circuses and rodeos.

Answer 11

Nope they arent the same.

Vegans don't eat meat or animal by products. Milk, cheese, etc. and Vegetarians do.

Answer 12

Vegans don't eat meat and other animal products (diary, honey etc.)

Vegetarians do eat the animal products.

Answer 13

Well technically veg@ns are vegetarians but they seem to be classified as two different things nowadays because a veg@n doesn't use or consume anything from an animal. Veg@ns don't eat eggs, dairy, meat, gelatin, honey, etc.. Also veg@ns don't wear anything that came from an animal like wool, or any kind of skin. A vegetarian is basically the same thing but can have or use any of those things except meat of course! But like I said a veg@n is a type of vegetarian, we just refrain from using anything from an animal while its the choice of a normal vegetarian on what they do and don't want to use. Hope that explains it!

Answer 14

A vegetarian does not eat meat.  A vegan does not eat or use any animal product at all, including dairy, beeswax, etc.

Answer 15

Vegans don't eat any kind of meat and don't indulge in anything that is produced by animals such as milk, eggs etc.

There are lacto-ovo-vegetarians who don't eat meat but are comfortable consuming dairy products and eggs.

And there's also lacto-vegetarians that prefer not to eat meat or eggs but are happy to consume dairy products. =]

I'm a lacto-ovo although I only like to eat FREE-RANGE eggs.

Hope I didn't confuse you. ;)

Answer 16

If they were the same thing there wouldn't be two names.