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Vegans and Vegetarians-what is the difference?

what is the differecne between vegans and vegetarians? im not trying to be ignorant or anything, its just that i just started answering in this category today, and i think that if i knew what the difference was, i could answer peoples' questions better! thanks!

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1. vegan is a short for vegetarian.
2. Vegans will eat no animal product. Vegetarians may eat some. For example. ovo-lacto-vegetarians will eat milk and egg products as well at foods of plant origin.
3. A vegan will eat no animal products as indicated above. This includes meats, fish,dairy, and even gelatin and honey. A vegetarian has many flavors. (a vegan being the most strict version of a vegetarian). A lacto vegetarian eats dairy. An ovo-lacto vegetarian eats eggs and dairy.
4. Vegetarians don't eat any meat. Vegans don't eat any meat, + they don't eat any animal products, such as milk (and therefore cheese, yogurt, sour cream or chocolate containing milk, or cookies containing milk), eggs (and therefore no cookies containing eggs), honey (and therefore no sweets containing honey). Also, no gelatin as it includes animal something - and this can also go for vegetarians as a no-no. Depends on how strict you want to be. Thus, vegans can also refuse to wear any leather clothes, or animal fur coats. Some medicines may contain extracts of animal something, such as those fish oil supplements of Vitamin E - and well, vegans as well as vegetarians will refuse such a product.
5. Vegans, no dairy or meat. Vegetarians, no meat. I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian, I eat no meat, but I still use dairy. I don't eat any kind of meat, including fish, and I don't eat gelatin, suet, or lard. I also don't use things tested on animals, or fur, leather, etc.
6. Vegetarians don't eat any part of a dead animal (beef, chicken, fish etc.) Vegans don't eat any part of a dead animal or any products from a live animal (beef, fish, milk, eggs, honey etc.)
7. LACTO-OVO VEGETARIAN Includes both eggs and dairy products in their diet LACTO VEGETARIAN Dairy products but no eggs VEGAN Consumes no animal products whatsoever (including honey)
8. If you are talking about those in modern society, there is very little difference mentally. They are all wannabes. True vegans and true vegetarians that live a well-integrated lifestyle are found only on rare occasions in modern cultures and are totally absent from the V&V forum.
9. Vegetarians don't eat meat or anything else that an animal has to die for (rennet & gelatin are examples of slaughter byproducts.) Some use prefixes like lacto- (referring to milk) and ovo- (referring to eggs) to be specific about what they do eat. For example, many vegetarians are lacto-ovo-vegetarians, meaning that they eat eggs and dairy products, but some will label themselves just lacto-veg or ovo-veg. Vegans do not eat, use or wear anything that comes from an animal, regardless of whether or not the animal has to die for it. No meat, dairy, eggs, honey, wool, leather, silk, fur, or feathers.
10. vegan- don't eat fish, dairy produce, eggs (any thing that comes form animals) vegitarians- etat dairy produce, eggs and SOME eat fish not all of them (i eat fish, i fact 4 tea i had a prawn omlet tonight it was very nice)
11. Vegetarians eat no meat, either due to health reasons or a limited understanding of animal rights implications. Vegans eat no meat, eggs, dairy, products containing animal ingredients such as gelatin, casein, and whey, wear leather, fur, or wool, buy products from companies that conduct non-required animal toxicity tests: http://www.caringconsumer.com/pdfs/companiesDoTest.pdf Or frequent zoos, rodeos, circuses, or other places where animals are held in captivity or forced to perform.