*Vegan - Someone who consumes only a diet based on plants; no animal or animal byproducts such as milk or cheese.
*Vegan - Someone who consumes only a diet based on plants; no animal or animal byproducts such as milk or cheese.
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*Lactovegetarian - Someone who eats a plant based diet but also eats animal produced foods such as milk and cheese.
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*Lactovegetarian - Someone who eats a plant based diet but also eats animal produced foods such as milk and cheese. This viewpoint is often criticized by stricter vegetarians for ignoring the fact that milk production for human consumption inevitably requires the slaughter of the bulk of male calves (whose meat is valued by meat eaters as veal).
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*Ovo-lactovegetarian (or lacto-ovovege-tarian) - Similar to the Lactovegetarian but also consumes eggs.
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*Ovo-lactovegetarian (or lacto-ovovege-tarian) - Similar to the Lactovegetarian but also consumes eggs. Similarly, this viewpoint is criticized for the large wastage of chickens it entails).
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*Pesco-ovo-lactovegetarian - as above but with the inclusion of fish.
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*Pesco-ovo-lactovegetarian - as above but with the inclusion of fish. Given that fish are animals by any definition, most vegetarians reject the idea that this type of diet is vegetarian at all.