Difference between vegans and vegetarians: What is the key?

Vegan or vegetarian? Is it the same or are worlds apart? If you are starting in this type of food or you simply feel curiosity, here in Shlen we tell you everything clearly, without judgments and with the information you really need.

Vegetarianism: an incomplete approach

Some people identified as vegetarians avoid consuming meat and fish (including beef, birds or seafood), but continue to consume by by -products of animal exploitation such as dairy, eggs or honey. This position presents fundamental ethical contradictions:

• Ovolactavegaranos: consume dairy and eggs
• Lactovegetarians: They drink milk but reject eggs
• Ovovegetarians: They consume eggs but avoid dairy

These variants, although they reduce direct consumption of meat, continue to finance industries that systematically exploit, damage and finally kill non -human animals.

Veganism: fundamental ethical coherence

Veganism is an irrevocable moral principle that rejects all forms of animal exploitation. It is not a “diet” but a commitment of justice that applies to all areas:

• Power: elimination of meat, dairy, eggs, honey and animal derivatives
• Consumption: rejection of leather, wool, silk and products tested in animals
• Ethics: Recognition of the inherent right of animals not to be considered property

This position is the only one that consistently responds to scientific evidence on animal syntiance and significantly minimizes the ecological footprint.

MOTIVATIONS: When coherence makes a difference

While some people adopt vegetable diets for health or environment, only veganism addresses the root of the problem: the reification of sensory individuals. “Partial” motivations ignore that:

• The dairy industry implies the theft of young and the murder of exhausted cows
• Egg production condemns male chicks to crushing or suffocation
• Any use of animals such as resources perpetuates its property status

Collateral benefits and practical considerations

Although a properly planned 100% vegetable food offers healthy benefits (weight control, lower cardiovascular risk), its central value is ethical. Nutrients such as B12 (also supplemented in farm animals), iron or omega 3 are easily obtained by:

• Fortified food
• Responsible supplements
• Food diversity

In Shlen we always recommend specialized nutritional advice to guarantee full health in this ethical commitment.

The only morally consistent choice

Given the evidence of industrialized animal suffering, veganism emerges not as an “option” but as a minimum ethical imperative:

• Vegetarianism continues to finance systematic killings (dairy cows, exhausted chickens))
• Only the total rejection of animal exploitation avoids complicity with its suffering
• Reduce consumption without eliminating it perpetuates the demand for cruelty

In Shlen we maintain that moving towards truly aware decisions requires sitting inks. Adopting veganism is not a “lifestyle”, but the basic recognition that non -human animals are not our resources.

The fundamental thing is to act with ethical coherence, rigorous information and the conviction that no momentary pleasure justifies the suffering of a symptoms.