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  • In a world where vegetarians are already a marginalized, and fringe groups are further sub-categorized into vegans, pescatarians, raw foodies, lacto-ovo vegetarian, etc, I have invented a new category and introduced it into the urban dictionary.

    Gopi Kallayil: The Practical Vegetarian Gopi Kallayil 2010

  • In a world where vegetarians are already a marginalized, and fringe groups are further sub-categorized into vegans, pescatarians, raw foodies, lacto-ovo vegetarian, etc, I have invented a new category and introduced it into the urban dictionary.

    Gopi Kallayil: The Practical Vegetarian Gopi Kallayil 2010

  • I was eating lacto-ovo vegetarian and they got it without any explanation.

    Karin Kloosterman: Thailand By River Karin Kloosterman 2012

  • In a world where vegetarians are already a marginalized, and fringe groups are further sub-categorized into vegans, pescatarians, raw foodies, lacto-ovo vegetarian, etc, I have invented a new category and introduced it into the urban dictionary.

    Gopi Kallayil: The Practical Vegetarian Gopi Kallayil 2010

  • I was eating lacto-ovo vegetarian and they got it without any explanation.

    Karin Kloosterman: Thailand By River Karin Kloosterman 2012

  • Milk products and eggs are also good protein sources for lacto-ovo vegetarians.

    The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010

  • Milk products and eggs are also good protein sources for lacto-ovo vegetarians.

    The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010

  • Milk products and eggs are also good protein sources for lacto-ovo vegetarians.

    The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010

  • Milk products and eggs are also good protein sources for lacto-ovo vegetarians.

    The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010

  • If you currently eat a typical meat-heavy American diet, then switching to a lacto-ovo vegetarian one will cut your carbon footprint by almost a ton a year, not to mention drastically reduce your water consumption and help stop deforestation in the Amazon.

    Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Can You Be An Environmentalist Without Being Vegetarian? 2009

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  • A vegetarian who does not eat beef, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but is willing to consume cheese, butter, yogurt and eggs. Lacto- means "milk" and ovo- means "egg".

    June 5, 2008

  • Er... isn't that the standard definition of "vegetarian"?

    June 5, 2008