Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtgzy!ecl From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (e.c.leeper) Newsgroups: net.veg Subject: Re: Questions About Vegetarianism Message-ID: <1895@mtgzy.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 14:49:09 EDT Article-I.D.: mtgzy.1895 Posted: Wed Jul 30 14:49:09 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Aug-86 21:01:26 EDT References: <3175@jhunix.UUCP> <7523@stolaf.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 18 Cc: ecl > > Sue Trowbridge @ arpa : ins_aset%jhunix.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU: > > 1. I have heard that there are different types of vegetarians, > > including lacto-vegetarians and vegans. What is the difference? > > Ovo-lacto vegetarians and vegans, as far as I know, are the same > thing. They shun any and all animal products, including eggs > and dairy products. As several previous posters have pointed out, this is not true. Ovo-lacto-vegetarians eat eggs and dairy products, lacto-vegetarians eat dairy products but not eggs, vegans eat neither. Evelyn C. Leeper (201) 957-2070 ihnp4!mtgzy!ecl mtgzy!ecl@topaz.rutgers.edu Resistance is useless if less than 1 ohm.