On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:20:45 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Todd" > wrote in message
...
>> On 03/18/2013 02:35 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> Nonsenese! Please, please quit your lying! Please! Vegetarians can eat
>>> dairy and eggs. Vegans do not. Vegans do not use any animal products.
>>> Not
>>> even leather. Vegetarians can use leather. Not all do.
>>
>>
>> Hi Julie,
>>
>> I am not lying. We are using different definitions. Since
>> I did not know what your personal one was, I was using what I
>> thought was the common definition.
>
>That's not *my* personal definition. As I said before, there are three
>distinct types of vegetarians and one type of vegan. Granted of the vegans,
>some eat raw foods and some do not. Even some vegetarians only eat raw
>foods. But that's a different matter.
>>
>> This is the definition I am using. Egg and dairy eaters
>> would fall under the definition of "Semi-vegetarians".
>> Apparently the "Vegetarian Society" (see below) doesn't
>> think they are vegetarians at all.
>
>Oh nonsense! Just nonsense! Egg and dairy eaters (who abstain from eating
>flesh) are VEGERTARIANS!

What is a "vegertarian"? Is this yet another level of vegetarian? I've
never heard the term before. Where can I read more about these
vegertarians?

>A semi-vegetarian would be a person who eats a vegetarian diet most of the
>time but occasionally eats flesh, be it chicken, beef, pork, lamb, fish,
>whatever...
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism
>>
>> -T
>>
>> From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism
>>
>>
>> Vegetarianism:
>>
>> Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the
>> consumption of meat – red meat, poultry, seafood and
>> the flesh of any other animal; it may also include
>> abstention from by-products of animal slaughter, such
>> as animal-derived rennet and gelatin.
>>
>Yes! We both put up the same link. But apparently you took the information
>that they put and changed it into something else. A vegetarain abstains
>from the consumption of meat! And by-products of animal slaughter. But you
>failed to quote the egg and dairy part. In fact you failed to actually
>quote what you did put. Let me quote it for ya.
>
>" There are varieties of the diet as well: an ovo-vegetarian diet includes
>eggs but not dairy products, a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products
>but not eggs, and an ovo-taco vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy
>products."
>
>Then it does on to say:
>
>" A vegan , or strict vegetarian, diet excludes all animal products,
>including eggs, dairy, beeswax and honey. Vegans also avoid animal products
>such as leather for clothing and goose-fat for shoe polish."
>> ...
>>
>> Semi-vegetarian diets consist largely of vegetarian
>> foods, but may include fish or poultry, or sometimes
>> other meats, on an infrequent basis. Those with diets
>> containing fish or poultry may define "meat" only as
>> mammalian flesh and may identify with vegetarianism.
>> A pescetarian diet has been described as "fish but
>> no other meat". *The common use association between
>> such diets and vegetarianism has led vegetarian groups
>> such as the Vegetarian Society to state that diets
>> containing these ingredients are not vegetarian, due
>> to fish and birds being animals.*
>>
>Exactly! Those diets are *not* vegetarian. Just as I said.
>
>A pescatarian eats fish and shellfish but no other animal flesh:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescetarianism
>
>A pollotarian eats only chicken and no other animal flesh:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollotarianism
>