Vegetarian vs. Vegan

tuxedo702
tuxedo702 Posts: 58
edited September 19 in Food and Nutrition
Could someone please explain the difference between being vegetarian and vegan? I think the fomer abstains from meat and the latter from meat, dairy and fish - is this correct?

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  • tuxedo702
    tuxedo702 Posts: 58
    Could someone please explain the difference between being vegetarian and vegan? I think the fomer abstains from meat and the latter from meat, dairy and fish - is this correct?
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    from what I understand, a Vegan does not use anything made with animal. This includes leather and such.
  • 33equals3
    33equals3 Posts: 7
    Well, there is vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian (includes milk but excludes eggs), lacto-ovo vegeterian (yes eggs, milk, but no fish, meat, poultry). There are vegans that use leather etc, but most vegans do not (those who are vegans for ethical, not health reasons). I used to be lacto/almost vegan for many years.
    HTH!
  • MiaEllie
    MiaEllie Posts: 84
    Most vegans don't eat any food that comes from an animal (this includes honey).
  • anony999
    anony999 Posts: 112 Member
    I am a level 5 vegan. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.
  • tuxedo702
    tuxedo702 Posts: 58
    Don't plants cast shadows?:wink:
  • Skabilly
    Skabilly Posts: 12
    Don't plants cast shadows?:wink:


    SO TRUE LOL:laugh:
  • m_bordeau23
    m_bordeau23 Posts: 20
    Hahaha

    That's the point! It's from the Simpsons.
  • anony999
    anony999 Posts: 112 Member
    Hahaha

    That's the point! It's from the Simpsons.

    Winner!!!
  • tuxedo702
    tuxedo702 Posts: 58
    Very good, then! I haven't watched the Simpsons in years - more of a Seinfeld sense of humor, I guess...
  • Poison5119
    Poison5119 Posts: 1,460 Member
    And I on the other hand will eat pretty much anything that isn't nailed down or moves when the wind blows. Everything in moderation.
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I am interested in this as one of my close friends told me she was now a vegetarian. She went to a slaughter house on a school trip with her kid and came home with no desire to eat anything with a face.

    Funny thing is, she has gained 50+ pounds!! I thought she would LOSE weight.

    I almost made a joke about the leather tennis shoes she had on.....but was afraid I would send her over the edge!!!

    :flowerforyou:
  • dothompson
    dothompson Posts: 1,184 Member
    And I on the other hand will eat pretty much anything that isn't nailed down or moves when the wind blows. Everything in moderation.

    You're too picky!

    I'll eat things that blow or are nailed down. They just can't move on their own power.
  • tuxedo702
    tuxedo702 Posts: 58
    I am interested in this as one of my close friends told me she was now a vegetarian. She went to a slaughter house on a school trip with her kid and came home with no desire to eat anything with a face.

    Funny thing is, she has gained 50+ pounds!! I thought she would LOSE weight.

    I almost made a joke about the leather tennis shoes she had on.....but was afraid I would send her over the edge!!!

    :flowerforyou:

    I'm in the process of reading "Skinny *****" and after reading the chapter about the slaughterhouses I don't think I'll eat meat again either. Howver, you do raise an interesting dilemma re: leather. Shoes, belts, purses. How do we justify that? But then what are we supposed to wear - plastic?
  • tuxedo702
    tuxedo702 Posts: 58
    I'm in the process of reading "Skinny *****" and after reading the chapter about the slaughterhouses I don't think I'll eat meat again either. Howver, you do raise an interesting dilemma re: leather. Shoes, belts, purses. How do we justify that? But then what are we supposed to wear - plastic?

    Oops! Didn't realize I'd get sensored there - it's the title of a book for heaven's sake! (Second word describes a female dog.)
  • Fitness_Chick
    Fitness_Chick Posts: 6,648 Member
    Very good, then! I haven't watched the Simpsons in years - more of a Seinfeld sense of humor, I guess...
    Well ALRIGHT THEN!!:drinker: Happy Festivus to YOU!:bigsmile: :laugh: :laugh: :drinker: :wink:
  • Fitness_Chick
    Fitness_Chick Posts: 6,648 Member
    I'm in the process of reading "Skinny *****" and after reading the chapter about the slaughterhouses I don't think I'll eat meat again either. Howver, you do raise an interesting dilemma re: leather. Shoes, belts, purses. How do we justify that? But then what are we supposed to wear - plastic?

    Oops! Didn't realize I'd get sensored there - it's the title of a book for heaven's sake! (Second word describes a female dog.)
    clothes made with duct tape!!:noway: .....seem to be quite the rage!! It comes in all sorts of fun colors now...:wink::bigsmile:
  • Fitness_Chick
    Fitness_Chick Posts: 6,648 Member
    I am interested in this as one of my close friends told me she was now a vegetarian. She went to a slaughter house on a school trip with her kid and came home with no desire to eat anything with a face.

    Funny thing is, she has gained 50+ pounds!! I thought she would LOSE weight.

    I almost made a joke about the leather tennis shoes she had on.....but was afraid I would send her over the edge!!!

    :flowerforyou:
    My Health food coop is full of many vegans and vegetarians...in all shapes and sizes... :flowerforyou: I think it can happen that if we don't educate ourselves well before making changes beit dropping meat or anything else from our daily diet perhaps a person might tend to overeat in another food group...more processed etc. Lots of great foods in the freezer section at Healthy Food stores...but still processed in some way or another.

    I imagine if overeaten...YUP even AMY's spinach/artichoke pizza would make a person wish they hadn't eaten so much of it!:laugh:
  • tuxedo702
    tuxedo702 Posts: 58
    I imagine if overeaten...YUP even AMY's spinach/artichoke pizza would make a person wish they hadn't eaten so much of it!:laugh:
    Now that's crazy talk! No one would ever wish that about Amy's Spinach/Artichoke pizza! Love it!:smile:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I am interested in this as one of my close friends told me she was now a vegetarian. She went to a slaughter house on a school trip with her kid and came home with no desire to eat anything with a face.

    Funny thing is, she has gained 50+ pounds!! I thought she would LOSE weight.

    I almost made a joke about the leather tennis shoes she had on.....but was afraid I would send her over the edge!!!

    :flowerforyou:
    My Health food coop is full of many vegans and vegetarians...in all shapes and sizes... :flowerforyou: I think it can happen that if we don't educate ourselves well before making changes beit dropping meat or anything else from our daily diet perhaps a person might tend to overeat in another food group...more processed etc. Lots of great foods in the freezer section at Healthy Food stores...but still processed in some way or another.

    I imagine if overeaten...YUP even AMY's spinach/artichoke pizza would make a person wish they hadn't eaten so much of it!:laugh:

    Good point!:heart:
  • may_marie
    may_marie Posts: 667 Member
    hi there everyone,,

    i turned to vegetarism a bit over 3 years ago,, and i did gained weight by doing that,, (of course i lost tons now too.lol) i was eating tons of pasta,,, that was one problem,, also, chocolate,ice cream, cakes, are all vegetarian (well mostly) .... vegetarian doesnt mean healthy,

    as for the leather, i dont use those products, i regulary am giving some as gifts and they end up in the bottom of the closet, same as furry things, even if its fake fur,, i dont want to give the idea that fur is cool, coz the next person might buy the real stuff,

    i dont miss it, i find it hard when i shop for dress shoes, but otherwise im always in sneakers and those are easy to find non leather, there are specialized shops with vegetarian leather (synthetic) online and high street. otherwise you can figure out what the shoes are made off with the labels.. there are little symbols....

    there are different levels of vegetarism, as someone else explained, there is ovo-lacto, just lacto or ovo, vegan, but also because a lot of beer/wine/spirit have bits of fish used in the process, some people will drink only what they know is "safe", my boyfriend is very strict on that, as i am not, i drink wine that i am not sure of the content, although if im in a shop choosing a bottle ... i will get the one one without.. same goes for stuff that are harder to know, like rennet in cheese and gelatin in other stuff.... (right now im on antibiotics,,, and the capsule has gelatin in it, i am having them, but my bf wouldnt have....although i do it with a pinch to the heart)

    its very hard to draw the line, my bf decided that is was all black and all white.. as i have a gray area..
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