or eggs or other insect parts

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[–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

yes. the reason the term vegan came about was because of the looseness of vegetarian. vegetarian would inply no eggs or insect unless it had a rider. like lacto/ovo vegetarians will ingest milk and eggs. honey was usually not to much of an issue. so vegan started being used for people who don't eat animals or anything that came from an animal like honey or milk. There is a thing called fruitarian that theoretically will only eat the parts of the plant that the plant made to be eaten. Like fruits. Steve jobs was into it before he died. I think he thought it would cure or help his cancer or something.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Strict vegetarian used to be the term for not eating any animal products. Vegan denoted lifestyle, not just diet. A vegan would not have leather shoes of wool sweaters.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I feel like someone strict enough to not eat honey is going to be thinking about their clothing choices though. I mean I was not a part of the subculture honestly but from an outside perspective that is what it felt like to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    fruitarian

    It's interesting to me that they went with that name, since there's already a name for eating fruit (frugivory)

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  • Frugivore implies a biological cause for the diet primarily consisting of fruit. Humans are biological omnivores regardless of if we choose to limit our diet of other reasons. They don't use frugivore for the same reason that vegetarians don't use herbivore.

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