Ask the vegan: What Do You Call…?

These are some of the questions that I get asked, so I will answer in one block

What do you call…

a vegetarian who eats cheese?
a vegetarian

someone who eats bacon and chicken wings? a chickenwing-atarian?
no, an omnivore

what do you call a vegan who eats fish?
what do you call a vegetarian that eats fish?
an omnivore, some people who eat fish but no other animals might give themselves a fancy label such as aquatarian or pescotarian, but they are not vegan, they are not even vegetarian

what do you call a vegan who eats eggs?
a vegetarian, if they eat no other animal products, they might consider themselves an ovo-vegetarian

what do you call someone who is vegan but eats cheese?
you don’t call them a vegan, they are a vegetarian

what do you call a vegetarian who eats cheese?
a vegetarian

can vegans eat chicken?
they can, but they wouldn’t be vegan, they would be an omnivore

what do you call a vegetarian that eats chicken?
an omnivore

does alicia silverstone ever cheat on her vegan diet?
you can’t cheat on a vegan diet, you are either a vegan or you are not, once you start eating a little cheese now and then, you are no longer vegan… and yes, she does, or has done previously: what do you call a cheese-eating vegan?… a celebrity (the Alicia Silverstone saga)

what do you call a person that doesn’t eat animals but eats cheese?
if they are vegetarian, and eat no other animal products, such as honey or eggs, might consider themselves lacto-vegetarian

what do you call a person that does not eat?
a breathatarian, starving, hunger-striker, famine… depends on the context, this is not related to veganism

what do you call a vegan that eats chicken and fish?
anything but vegan, not even vegetarian, they are omnivore

For more on this choosing the label that you want to wear, see: Vegans, Vegetarians and Lacto-Ovo-Meli-Pesco-Pollo-Porcine-Ovis-Bovine-atarians

or the definition with explanation of vegan

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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife

(or a knife and fork)

text of image: There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer

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not my original image, this one is from Animal Liberation Victoria

Animal Liberation Victoria: Fighting for animal rights
- campaigns against all animal abuse