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No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"
, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing" .
, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing" .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
noun veg·an ˈvē-gən also ˈvā- also ˈve-jən or -ˌjan : a person who does not eat any food that comes from animals and who often also does not use animal products (such as leather)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegan
Your statement "Then you are not considered vegan." should be modified for the sake of accuracy to read: "Then you are not considered vegan by me." And you are, of course, entitled to your own opinion. But just don't claim that your opinion is a universal truth.
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