Vegetarian - eats vegetable food and animal products (milk, eggs, honey, etc) but no meat or fish.
Vegan - eats vegetable food, no animal products
Fruitarian - eats fruit only (what drops from the plant), no live plants. Now that's dedication!
Ovid on Vegetarianism
Some Famous Vegetarians and Vegans
Ramana Maharshi, the great Sage who treated all beings equally
Integral Morality - my essay on sentient rights and animal liberation in the context of a larger integral philosophy
Vegetarian and Vegan Links
"As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with another species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principal that might is right... for the animals, life is always Treblinka."
Vegetarianism is one of the single greatest moral issues, if not the greatest, that faces humankind. It is a contentious issue, a taboo, people who eat meat are not bad people, and it is easy look at animal carcasses in shops and supermarkets as if they had grown on trees or assembled from inanimate matter. Quite apart from health reasons, since I became vegetarian more than two decades ago my who body feels lighter, more subtle and refined. In any case, I do not force or ask anyone to be vegetarian or vegan, but this is simply a choice i have made for myself. Ultimately it is one's one self that must choose, guided by the principle of spiritual light and sense of empathy and compassion (in Buddhism - mahakaruna) for all sentient life, to do the actions and live the lifestyle they feel is right for them.
