how unhappy your group were when they took the word "vegetarian" to normalize the abuse of cows who have to go into artificial insemination via a human arm with a glove up to the elbows, to remove the calf (have you ever heard a cow mooing at night because they miss their offspring) after a week or 2, kill the baby if it's male (because there's no financial interest) and then hook up machines on their boobs to suck milk. close relatives of chickens in the wild do not even lay 15 eggs per year. go wonder about the physiology of oviposition in complex and much evolved animals like avians

the correct term would be ovo-lacto-vegetarian (if you eat eggs and milk), lacto-vegetarian (just milk), ovo-vegatarian etc. but since words derive meaning from society and not from the individual when a vegan starts to climb into their moral superiority, just tell them to shut up, because most of these conflicts happen into the virtual world or with someone having a smartphone at their pockets, which do have conflict minerals (which funds armed groups and slavery) or that their synthetic leather vegan shoes are made out of plastic and micro-plastic is disrupting at great rate Earthling life forms or that vegans that have children have a much bigger ecological impact than childless people who eat meat, if they drive vehicles or if they often travel internationally but never try to justify your hypocrite, speciesist, idiot and soulless decision to exploit life when you reach your plate... science considers 85 different species a bigger number than what a culture thresholds on their eating habits. only the plantae kingdom has 200000 edible species and we ain't even counting fungi and not even counting on the amount of crazy GMO stuff we can came up with like yellow rice with better nutrition content and resistance to climate change and the amount of exploration to be made on fermentation