Everything you Need to Get you Started 1. A vegetarian is somebody who does not eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea like lobsters, or any kind of slaughterhouse by-products such as gelatine or animal fats.
People go veggie for all kinds of different reasons.
Perhaps they are aware that it takes four times as much land to feed a meat-eater than a vegetarian, or that modern methods of meat production are extremely polluting. Maybe they are concerned that developing nations sell their grain and soybean crops to rich nations to feed their livestock and that local people go hungry as a result. Maybe they simply don't want an animal to die to reach their plate, when it's simply not necessary. This is the most common type of vegetarian diet. Lacto-vegetarians eat dairy products but no eggs.