1.0HappyCowhttps://www.happycow.net/blogSteviehttps://www.happycow.net/blog/author/stevie/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="mv6feHiXDe"><a href="https://www.happycow.net/blog/vegan-without-being-vegetarian/">Vegan Without Being Vegetarian?</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.happycow.net/blog/vegan-without-being-vegetarian/embed/#?secret=mv6feHiXDe" width="600" height="338" title="“Vegan Without Being Vegetarian?” — HappyCow" data-secret="mv6feHiXDe" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.happycow.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/vegan-definition-1024x714.jpg1024714Waiter – “Hello sir, how are you?” Customer – “Hello, I’m very well, thank you.” Waiter – “Are you ready to order sir?” Customer – “Yes please. What do you recommend that is vegan friendly?” Waiter – “How about chicken?” Customer (confused) – “Excuse me please??” Waiter – “How about chicken?” Customer (still confused) – “But I don’t eat meat??” Waiter – “Ah, you’re vegetarian as well.” Customer (even more confused) – “How can someone be vegan without being vegetarian???” Does the above conversation have any ring of familiarity? Regrettable as it is to say so, the above is a first hand account from being the customer in that conversation a few years ago. This is of course far from an isolated example. The more common scourge of so many a vegetarian is being in an omnivorous restaurant and on asking for vegetarian food, being offered fish. (Fish. Eaten by pescetarians, not eaten by vegetarians.) The point being made is that different people have different levels of understanding of different concepts within vegetarianism. Only going by personal experience rather than having any statistical evidence to back this up, in North America the understanding of the word vegan for example appears quite […]