The difference between vegetarian beans and regular beans?

I recently became a vegan. I've been looking at recepies, and everything that calls for beans, calls for vegetarian beans. Could someone please tell me the difference between vegetarian beans and regular beans?
Thanks.
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All dry beans are vegetarian. When you're using canned beans, such as baked beans, there may be animal products included, like bacon. Vegetarian beans would be canned beans that have no animal flesh or animal slaughter by products.

Non-Vegetarian beans are usually fully cooked with pork, lard, broth all of which come from animals. Vegetarians beans on the other hand would be all dried beans which you reconstitute yourself, any canned beans which do not contain any meat or meat by product ingredients.
For years, most canned cooked beans contained some meat by products. Many companies realize that vegetarian means more than no visible meat.

Vegetarian beans are canned beans in a sauce that does not contain any animal products. Heinz and Bush's both make varieties of vegetarian beans.

Be aware that if there is less than 2% animal product in the beans, they can't call them vegetarian but they also don't have to write it in the ingredients.

all beans are vegatarian

For example, baked beans. There are the "regular" kind and then vegetarian ones. Just means they are not cooked with the pork/meat.

I believe all beans are vegetarian, but if you are buying prepared beans in a can, some have meat broths or sauces. I encourage you to look at some other cookbooks before you get tired of beans! There are many wonderful and healthy options for vegans that don't include just beans as their protein source. Two great cookbooks with super easy recipes with food that you don't need to run to a health food store are Good Nutrition for Life and Vegetarian for Life by Darlene Blaney. I have both of these and I love them. Even my meat eating hubby likes her recipes.

I think some beans may be stored/cooked in animal fats.
(baked beans, etc.)

When a bean is dry/raw it is vegetarian. But pea soup, baked beans all traditionally have lard and or ham/bacon. If you are cooking your own, don't worry about it.

Essentially how anal retentive the author of the recipe is. JUST KIDDING!

Vegetarian beans (I typically see this from lines of products that offer products made with meat or meat products and then just beans) are beans that are manufactured purely with vegetable products.

A good example of this would be Rosarita refried beans. They offer their regular version, which I believe is made with lard and then they have a vegetarian version.

Most beans have their ingredients on the can, and if you do not see Lard or beef tallow or some sort of meat broth, they are vegetarian.

This is funny, because I was at the store the other day and my sister and I were looking at refried beans. They had regular or "classic" and "vegetarian" varieties, amongst others. So, I read the ingredients and they were exactly the same...

So, a random passer-by, and fellow veg, in the store said that they label the beans as "vegetarian" to promote awareness of the up and coming increase of vegetarians...? He said some other crap, too, but I think he was just a really optimistic dude.