"Do you eat meat?" "No, but I eat fish/chicken."

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Anonymous wrote:That's like my husband's office, where 75% of the people call themselves vegetarians, yet eat fish or chicken. It amuses him, because his wife and kids are ovo-lacto vegetarians.

So... vegan?

No, ovo lacto vegetarians eat eggs and daqiry; vegans eat neither.

So you're just a regular vegetarian. If you said "I'm a vegetarian and I don't eat any animal products", that term would be vegan.

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Anonymous wrote:That's like my husband's office, where 75% of the people call themselves vegetarians, yet eat fish or chicken. It amuses him, because his wife and kids are ovo-lacto vegetarians.

So... vegan?

No, ovo lacto vegetarians eat eggs and daqiry; vegans eat neither.

So you're just a regular vegetarian. If you said "I'm a vegetarian and I don't eat any animal products", that term would be vegan.

Yes, two of us are just regular vegetarians. But one of my kids is allergic to milk so she's just an ovo-vegetarian, if you want to get more specific.

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I eat fish, eggs, and dairy. I tell people I am a vegetarian because I get the side eye if I say pescatarian. I only bring it up if people ask or it's unavoidable because, oddly people have been proactively judgmental about my eating choices. I think because of PETA or other soapbox vegetarians they think I'm going to throw red paint on them and scream MEAT IS MURDER during dinner... But I could care less what anyone eats...

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There aren't 'different definitions of vegetarian'. There's one.

There are different definitions of vegetarian. When different people use the word "vegetarian", they mean different things. You don't think that this should be so, but nonetheless it is so. You can change this when you become Ruler of the World. (I have some other things I'd like you to change, while you're at it, please.)

There is one definition of vegetarian - you do not eat meat, poultry or fish nor eat or use their bi-products such as leather, fur or ingredients that come from a dead animal.. Its rather simple. If you do, you are not a vegetarian. You are just saying you are to be trendy. If you eat things they produce - eggs and milk, then you are either lacto (milk), ovo (eggs) or lacto-ovo (milk and eggs).

Lots and lots of people who consider themselves pretty hard core vegetarians still wear leather shoes.

That is because they are vegetarians but not vegans.

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Anonymous wrote:I eat fish, eggs, and dairy. I tell people I am a vegetarian because I get the side eye if I say pescatarian. I only bring it up if people ask or it's unavoidable because, oddly people have been proactively judgmental about my eating choices. I think because of PETA or other soapbox vegetarians they think I'm going to throw red paint on them and scream MEAT IS MURDER during dinner... But I could care less what anyone eats...

Or they think that you will tell them YOU ARE NOT A VEGETARIAN BECAUSE YOU ATE A HAMBURGER LAST YEAR THEREFORE YOU MUST NOT CALL YOURSELF A VEGETARIAN BECAUSE YOU AREN'T ONE! and that would be annoying.