Why can one be considered a vegetarian if they eat eggs?!
Why can one be considered a vegetarian if they eat eggs?
Aren't eggs just unborn chickens? Isn't similar to eating an aborted fetus? I'm vegan personally but am truly curious as to why eggs aren't considered meat.
Additional Details5 months ago
I know what the difference between a vegan and vegetairian are, I am certainly not confused by the two terms as I also know what octo-, lacto-, etc. are. To those who answered my question thank you for the help.
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5 months ago
I know what the difference between a vegan and vegetairian are, I am certainly not confused by the two terms as I also know what octo-, lacto-, etc. are. To those who answered my question thank you for the help.
As most people said, eggs we buy in shops are unfertilized and are thus not meat.
On the other hand, talking industrial, hens are forced to produce as many eggs as possible, without having the possibility to reproduce as they normally would (on a farm) which is not natural and removes the possibility of an egg to evolving to a chicken... Unfertilized but unnatural. Probably many people do not think about it.
Only fertilized eggs are unborn chickens. Regular eggs are not.
You confuse a vegetarian with a vegan. A vegan will not eat eggs. A vegetarian just believes killing animals for food is wrong. An egg is not yet an animal.
well, because each vergitarian has different views on it.. those whom do it for religion purposes can not eat eggs...
I wondered that to, but me as a veggie..i don't eat eggs. bleckh
There are different types of vegetarians:
www.ivu.org/faq/eggsdairy.html
i am a vegetarian myself-vegans dont eat anything that comes from an animal-i think eggs arent considered mean because they never become an animal-i know this sounds stupid but its the best i can come up with...lol..i just think its the stage in the grand process we call life!! kudos for being a vegan!
it's not considered meat because chicken fetus develop diferently than human or animal ones. there is no meat until the chiken later developes, meanwhile it's just like mucus.
Eggs are only unborn chickens if they have been fertilized. Same concept as a women having a menstraul cycle every month- she is passing an unfertilized egg. Same difference.
eggs you buy from the store are unfertilized. so they could never be babies... less like eating aborted fetus and more like eating a chicken's period.. but still equally as gross
Regular unfertilized eggs are basically like the period of a hen. It's quite unappetizing to think of it that way, but that's why you can be considered a vegetarian if you eat them.
there are different levels of being a vegetarian.... some dont eat eggs, some dont eat cheese, etc....i love meat, so all vegetarians are freaks to me
"vegetarian" is just an artificial construct created at the end of the 19th century so it can be whatever people want it to be
there are two reasons:
1) some vegitarians have diffrent views on it
2) only fertalized eggs are considderd meat. not the regular ones
Its called ovo-vegetarianism if the only meat that you eat is chicken eggs, lacto-vegetarians, mean you drink milk and eat cheese but not the flesh of animals.
Vegetarian DO eat eggs,
sorry but you are mistaken for a vegan.
i have heard people say that eggs are like chickens periods... they would lay them anyway fertilised or not.... they are not meat as they are not flesh....
Eggs are not fertilized. There is no embryo or fetus. Eggs are not a by product of a dead animal. The eggs you buy at the market would have never developed into a chick.
You need to read up hunny. Eggs that are seen in grocery stores are not fertalized. Which means there is no living being inside.