Definition of "vegan" []

• A vegetarian who eats plant products only, especially one who uses no products derived from animals, as fur or leather. (noun)

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• "Danielle Konya, who launched Vegan Treats in Bethlehem, Pa., in 1998, plasters her bakery and marketing material—she distributes to 100 restaurants in the Northeast, she says—with the term "vegan.""
• "Most people know how to pronounce the word vegan and define it, too."
• "The case of the prosecution and prosecutors is that the couple intentionally and deliberately starved their child to death and used the term vegan to escape prosecution."