Below is a list of terms that are associated with a vegan lifestyle, their official definitions as created by Those Crazy Vegans, and an example of how they could be used in everyday life. After reading through these, you will be well equipped to impress your vegan and pre-vegan friends and family with your crazy newfound vocabulary!

80-10-10: A vegan diet based on the works of Dr. Douglas Graham consisting of minimum 80% carbohydrates, maximum 10% protein, and max 10% fat. Considered somewhat regimented and conforming by many vegans, but a generally accepted structure for several high-carb vegans.
Example: Um, did you just eat another avocado? That's seven today; I thought you were following the 80-10-10?

Activist: Someone who participates in activities to share the vegan message, such as talking with other people, posting on social media, sporting promotional clothing or other apparel, attending protests, or attacking friends and family for eating meat and wearing leather sandals.
Example: Yesterday I saw some crazy activist yelling "Go vegan!" from the mountaintop over yonder.

Advocate: Someone promoting vegan issues from a calm and compassionate perspective.
Example: John is a rational guy, he advocates being vegan, but he's pretty cool about it.

Angry Vegan: Someone who adopted a vegan lifestyle and is hostile or judgmental towards non/pre-vegans and often address people with "you" statements.
Example: An angry vegan was attacking and yelling at a lady wearing fur.

Animal Liberation: The idea that all animals should be free from pain, suffering, dominance, confinement, and being viewed as property or commodities.
Example: Animal liberation now!

Beegan: Someone who consumes plant-foods, but still consumes honey.
Example: Beegans seem to understand that animal "foods" involve cruelty, but somehow they overlook the fact that bees make honey for their families, that consuming their work is still stealing from them, and that commercial honey production involves the captivation and human control and dominance of other beings.

Carnist: A pre-vegan that doesn't realize that eating meat involves the pain, suffering, and death of another being and continues to love some animals and eat others. (Originally coined by Dr. Melanie Joy.)
Example: Mary loved her little lamb, but couldn't give up eating chicken. What a carnist.

Carnivore: A being that is naturally designed to eat meat, like lions and tigers. They are typically born with claws, fangs, an instinct to kill, speed, agility, a relatively short intestinal tract, acidic stomachs and often night vision. Antonym: Human being
Example: Lions and tigers are carnivores. Humans would fail miserably at hunting with their bare hands and without cheating with technology.

Closet Vegan: Someone who lives a vegan lifestyle but refrains from discussing or promoting veganism.
Example: George, the closet vegan, doesn't eat anything from animals but never mentions a word about his newfound life.

Cognitive Dissonance: The act of ignoring relevant information that goes against one’s beliefs, in order to protect that belief.
Example: When someone is

Cooked Food Vegan Junkie: Vegans who are addicted to vegan cooked food despite knowing that a fruitarian or raw food diet is healthier.
Example: Michael can't give up pasta and tofu. He's a cooked food vegan junkie.

Deep Veganism: A higher level of understanding of the vegan philosophy where one embodies the lifestyle to the fullest, lives by example, minimized harm whenever possible, and is unwavering in their commitment, and does not get angry or upset but rather maintains love in their heart when connecting with others.
Example: Deep veganism is an important part of my life where I extend love and compassion to all beings unconditionally.

Dry Fasting: The practice of abstaining from consuming any food or liquids for an extended period. Widely believed to assist with curing almost any ailment.
Example: I'm all out of cash, and my fruit stash is just about gone. Time for a few days of dry fasting to rid myself of some of those parasites I contracted back when I thought I was a carnivore.

Eden Fruitarian: Someone who eats a 100% fruit diet for ethical reasons, such as the fact that consuming fruit causes the least amount of harm to any food source on earth. An ethical extension of veganism.
Example: All these mangoes, papayas, and guavas are making me feel like an Eden Fruitarian. No animals or vegetables harmed and the trees that provide the fruit are still there ready to provide more.

Ethical Vegan: Someone who chooses a vegan lifestyle primarily for the reason that they feel that harming other beings is unjust and unkind. As opposed to doing it for health, spiritual, or other reasons.
Example: I can't stand the thought of animals suffering just so I can eat them, so I am an ethical vegan. What's in your fridge?

Fasting: The practice of abstaining from consuming any food for an extended period, but typically involves drinking liquids. Widely believed to assist with curing almost any ailment.
Example: Fasting is an excellent way to cleanse one's body of toxins and parasites.

Freegan: Someone who sources food that would be otherwise thrown away or wasted. Usually from dumpsters behind grocery stores, bakeries, and other food establishments.
Example: Friggin' freegans dumpster diving again.

Frugivore: A being that is naturally designed to eat fruit.
Example: Human beings are physiologically designed as frugivores.

Fruit Fast: The practice of eating a diet consisting of 100% fruit for an extended period in order to cleanse and detoxify the body, simplify digestion, and enjoy some of the tastiest food on earth.
Example: I just stocked up on watermelons, papayas, pineapples, and bananas for a week-long fruit fast.

Fruitarian: Someone who eats a diet consisting of primary fruit, and occasionally some nuts, seeds, and greens.
Example: I feel the best when I follow a fruitarian diet, I have tons of energy, and I feel like I'm eating candy all day.

Herding: The idea of seeing other animals as property, and gathering them as livestock for agriculture. Synonym: Hurting
Example: Humans are born into a herding culture where they see other animals as property.

High Carb Vegan: A vegan who's diet consists of a high percentage of carbohydrates and a low percentage of fats and proteins.
Example: A high carb vegan would eat a lot of fruit, vegetables, grains, and legumes (see 80-10-10).

High Fat Vegan: A vegan who's diet consists of a high percentage of fats and a low percentage of
carbohydrates.
Example: A high-fat vegan would eat a lot of nuts, seeds, avocados, coconuts, and potentially oils or other fatty processed foods.

Intersectional Vegan: A vegan who also advocates for other social issues such as race, class, or gender as they are interconnected and overlap as forms of discrimination or disadvantage.
Example: Michael is an intersectional vegan who advocates for all social justice issues.

Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarian: Someone who doesn't eat meat but still
consumes dairy and eggs.
Example: Sam is a lacto-ovo-vegetarian who got off the bacon but can't give up cheese omelets.

Lacto-Vegetarian: Someone who doesn't eat meat or eggs but still
consumes dairy.
Example: Amy is a lacto-vegetarian and thinks she needs to drink from a cow's utter. 

Mock Meat: Vegan transitional foods that are made from plant-based sources but resemble or taste like animal meat.
Example: Tofurkey, soy fish, seitan chicken are all forms of mock meat.

Mono Diet: The practice of consuming one type of food for an extended period in order to detoxify the body and simplify digestion.
Example: Thomas ate nothing but watermelons for three weeks as a mono diet.

Mono Meal: The practice of consuming one type of food for an entire meal in order to detoxify the body and simplify digestion.
Example: Jake just ate 12 mangos for lunch as a mono meal.

Omnivore: A being that is naturally designed to eat meat and plants. They are typically born with claws, fangs, an instinct to kill, speed, agility, a relatively short intestinal tract, an acidic stomach, and often night vision. Antonym: Human being.
Example: Bears, foxes, opossums, and raccoons are omnivores.

OVED: An acronym for Outdoor Video Educational Display. Typically used in activism or advocacy to share imagery of animal abuse in farms or slaughterhouses.
Example: OVEDs can be an effective tool as part of vegan outreach.

Plant-Based: A diet or meal based on exclusively or almost exclusively plants.
Example: I've been following a plant-based diet for the past week, and I feel great. 

Raw til 4: A "diet" base on the idea of eating raw foods for most
of the day and then cooked food in the evening (usually after 4) and usually excludes some foods such as garlic and onion.
Example: The cooked food vegan junkie cheated on the Raw Til 4 and ate some pasta at 3:59.

Raw Vegan: A vegan whose diet consists of all raw foods such as fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
Example: Today I transitioned from a cooked food vegan junkie to a raw vegan, and now I feel better than ever.

Paleo-Vegan: Someone who follows a vegan lifestyle in addition to the paleo diet, meaning they don't consume any animal products and also focus on foods that would have been eaten by early humans that would exclude dairy, grains, and processed or imported foods. Also, people who believe that the original paleo diet was a vegan diet and included only edible fruits and other plants.
Example: Mock meats and grains might be vegan, but they wouldn't be part of a Paleo-Vegan diet.

Pescatarian: Typically a vegetarian who doesn't consume the flesh of land animals but makes an exception for fish. Usually, they are confused and don't realize that fish are sentient beings that feel pain and suffering too.
Example: My sister doesn't think fish are animals, so she chooses to be a pescatarian.

Pre-Vegan: Someone who has not yet embraced the message of kindness and compassion towards animals and continues to consume and use other beings for their benefit, but will eventually wake up and do the right thing by abstaining from those inhumane practices.
Example: Everyone on earth is either a vegan or pre-vegan. 

Shallow Vegan: Someone who has chosen the vegan lifestyle but hasn't fully committed, usually because they haven't deepened their understanding of what it means to be a deep vegan with a true commitment to ethics, spirituality, health, and the environment.
Example: Someone who rides horses or keeps pets or other animals caged, fenced, or otherwise confined could be considered shallow vegans.

Single-Issue Campaign: The concept in vegan activism or advocacy with focus on a single issue rather than the vegan lifestyle as a whole. For example singling out the negative consequences of fur, rodeos, circuses, bullfights, zoos and aquariums, foi gras, etc.
Example: Single issue campaigns make certain types of abuse seem worse than others and neglect to communicate that all forms of seeing animals as property is a form of speciesism.

Speciesism: The notion that humans are superior to all other forms of living beings.
Example: Speciesism, just like racism and sexism, is a form of oppression to other living beings.

Stages of Veganism: The evolutionary journey that a vegan goes through from their early awakening to their deeper understanding of what veganism truly means.
Example: The stages of veganism often begin with a documentary or conversation and mature to highly enlightened understanding of the vegan ethic.

Standard Animal Diet (SAD): The typical diet of the unawakened souls consisting of meat, dairy, eggs, honey, and other animal-based foods.
Example: It's sad to know that most of the world has been brainwashed to think the Standard Animal Diet is normal, natural, and necessary. 

Transitional Food: Vegan foods that are designed to transition pre-vegans from a Standard Animal Diet to a vegan lifestyle.
Example: Mock meats, dairy and egg substitutes, and agave nectar are all transitional foods.

Transitional Vegan: Someone who is transitioning from the Standard Animal Diet to a vegan lifestyle but is still somewhat addicted to the animal foods we have been conditioned to consume.
Example: Sarah is a transitional vegan, but she's still a cheese acholic even though there are tons of vegan cheese alternatives on the market today.

Vegan: A compassionate person who does not eat, consume, or otherwise use animals, products or ingredients derived from animals, (i.e., food such as meat, dairy, eggs, honey; clothing, personal care products, building materials, etc), does not support endeavors that use animals for entertainment (i.e., zoos, aquariums, circuses, rodeos, etc), refrains from using products or supporting companies that involve testing on animals, and would not keep animals in captivity by "owning" pets.
Example: I live a vegan lifestyle for the lifestyle for the animals and hope you will join me on this journey of love and compassionatel

Veganniversary: The anniversary date of the time when someone became a vegan.
Example: t's my veganniversary, I can't believe I became vegan two years ago today.

Veganarchist: A vegan anarchist. Follows the ethics of voluntaryism and believes in "No slaves and no rulers for humans and all animals".

Veganic: The practice of gardening or farming using organic and vegan techniques, such as refraining from using animal manure, bone meal, livestock, fish meal, worm castings, etc.
Example: Veganic farming is the most ethical and environmentally sustainable method of growing food.'

Veggan: Someone who follows a plant-based diet, but continues to consume eggs.
Example: Veggans would be vegans if they didn't eat chicken menstruations.

Vegansexual: Someone who would only choose another vegan as a romantic partner, as they couldn't stand the thought of being intimate with someone whose body is full of dead animals and their secretions.
Example: Vegansexuals think it would be gross to date pre-vegans.

Vegetarian: Someone who doesn't consume meat (flesh of animals), but still may eat dairy, eggs, honey; may use clothing, personal care items, and other products made from animals; or may support companies that test on animals or endeavors that use animals for entertainment.
Example: Vegetarian is a halfway house for true compassion and kindness.

Water Fasting: The concept of spending an extended period refraining from eating any food and only consuming water.
Example: I have been water fasting for a week now and feeling terrific.

Whole Foods: (Not to be confused with the retail chain) Foods that are not processed or refined and are free from additives or other artificial substances.
Example: Unprocessed fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, and legumes are considered whole foods.

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