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The Difference Between Vegetarian and Vegan
This is a question I get asked a lot as people are still not sure about the difference between vegetarian and vegan — so here it is in a nutshell.
First a bit of history
Vegetarianism has been around since Adam was a boy. Nothing new at all. Great men and women in history were vegetarians including Hippocrates, Pythagoras and Plato. It is believed that the Greek soldiers had a vegetarian diet as it provided stamina and strength. It has been recorded that the Roman gladiators also were vegetarian, in fact they were called the Barley Men. Archaeologists discovered a tomb of around 80 bodies which obviously were gladiators. The bones revealed that the typical food they had eaten was wheat, barley and beans. Again, this would have been for stamina and strength.
Other greats were Leonard Di Vinci and Pierre Gassendi. Benjamin Franklin, Vincent Van Gogh, Issac Newton, Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy. It appears they all had their own reasons, but predominantly it was for the animals. In modern times many athletes choose a plant-based diet because, just like the gladiators, strength and stamina is critical for sport (an added bonus is recovery time).
