Vegetarians and Vegans?!
Vegetarians and Vegans?
I have a question about vegetarians and vegans. Do you eat eggs, or are those considered meat? I know they come from animals, but nobody dies when they're eaten.
Real answers please. I really would like to know.
Answers:
My personal belief is that I don't eat anything that has:
1) A face or
2) A mother
Eggs don't have faces, but they have mamas, so eggs are out for me. :-)
Some vegans don't eat eggs because they don't want to consume any protein or products that derive from an animal, some consider them to be "embryos" and are disgusted by the idea and most vegans on top of that refuse to eat animal products (or use any animal products like soap, leather etc) because they believe that the animal farming institution contributes to environmental degradation.
You asked for real answers. So far you've gotten two bad ones.
Vegetarians often eat eggs as well as cheese, milk and other dairy items.
Vegans do not. No eggs.
Neither vegetarians nor vegans eat fish. Those that claim they are one or the other and eat fish are making life difficult for us REAL veg heads.
some vegetarians eat them, but vegans dont
vegetarians just dont eat meat
vegans dont eat or wear nething that has to do with animals- no leather, no dairy, ect.
I'm a vegetarian and a vegan, and I don't eat them as much. It's not really considered eating meat but, I just don't like them.
If eggs actually were baby chickens, neither vegetarians nor vegans would eat them because neither type eats ANY animals whatsoever.
However, an egg is simply that, an egg. We have eggs too.
In short, an egg is nothing more than a female chicken's period. Gross? Yes, but it is also considered vegetarian, just as milk (lactation from cows' *breasts*) is also considered vegetarian.
Sexual juices (sorry) are not meat.
And even the most devout religious person would not consider an egg, unfertilized by sperm, life, animal, human or meat.
Many vegetarians do drop eggs from their diets eventually though. While the chickens are not killed for eggs, they do suffer greatly for us to have them. When their production is not up to par, they are killed to make chicken meat.
i'm a vegetarian and have been for basically my whole life, with a few exceptions when i was little. i do not eat eggs, i find them disgusting- you are eating an unfertilized chicken fetus. bleh. i do, however, eat some things with egg in them, but i try to stay away from them.
Vegans are not supposed to eat eggs.
Vegetarians, if they are ovo-lacto, can eat eggs if they choose. Many opt for vegetarian fed and free range.
The conditions that hens live in are one of the main concerns over eggs. They are crammed into cages where they cannot stand up, they have very little circulation and the air there is is rich with ammonia and dust, and they are generally treated poorly. Also, once they are no longer producing eggs regularly, they are killed (generally inhumanely), ground up, and fed to the other hens (beaks, legs, and all).