Would eggs be considered unvegitarian?!
Would eggs be considered unvegitarian?
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3 weeks ago
My friend is a vegitarian. He never eats any kind of meat or fish or eggs.
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3 weeks ago
My friend is a vegitarian. He never eats any kind of meat or fish or eggs.
Your friend may be a lacto-vegetarian (if he uses milk and dairy) or a VEGAN vegetarian if he doesn't.
When people say "vegetarian" they usually mean Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian. This means someone who eats no MEAT (animals) They CAN however, eat milk, eggs, and all plant products.
How can vegetarians consider eggs to not be meat? Aren't they a baby animal, not yet developed?
Since most commercially raised eggs (as far as I know) are unfertilized, they would never turn into a baby chicken. Therefore they are not "meat." You are not killing or eating an animal or potential animal. Once the egg is laid, unfertilized, there is no chance it could have turned into a baby animal. Women release unfertilized "eggs" during their period all the time. They never become babies.
So, the answer to your question is NO.
only VEGANS and Lacto-vegetarians consider eggs outside of their diet.
depends upon your definition of vegetarian.
There are vegetarians that eat eggs. ova-vegetarians.
What's also confusing, there are vegetarians who eat fish and still call themselves vegetarians.
Edit... does your friend eat cake or ice cream? There are products that contain eggs even though he may not eat scrambled, fried or hard-boiled eggs.
You shouldn't eat eggs;
Antoher problem inherent in all egg production involves the disposal of unwanted chicks. Commerical egg hatcheries are the supply houses for the egg-laying industry. Here, fertilized eggs are incubated and hatched, and the femal chicks are sold to replace spent hens. Day-old chicks are divided into two groups based on their sex. Male chicks are of no use to the egg industry because they cannot produce eggs and do not grow large enough to be sold profitably for meat. Like male calves born to dairy cosw, male chicks are veiwed simply as industry by-products. There is no incentive for producers to spend time and money to euthanize male chicks, which they consider to be a liabliity. Consequently, they are disposed of by the quickest and cheapest methods, most often suffocation, gassing, drowning, or being ground up alive for animal feed. All egg hatcheries commit these atrocities wheather they provide hens for factory farms or free-range farms. The USDA report "Chickens and Eggs" set the death toll at about 200 million male chicks each year.
There are several degrees of vegetarians. An egg isnt quite a living thing, as it has not been fertilized. But many vegetarians still choose not to eat them, because of how the chickens who hatched them are treated.
He may be what is called a VEGAN where they dont eat eggs OR milk products. Or sometimes any other animal based product, like honey or wool.
No it's then called ovo-vegetarian. I'm a peske-ovo-vegetarian. Fish and eggs. Vegans, on the other hand, hate me.
i am a vegetarian i dont eat eggs, or drink milk, or eat fish, there are many levels of vegetarianism.. those who eat eggs just dont consider it a living thing that suffers for the food, which is true the egg does not suffer, but most vegetarians boycott them because the life the mothers who have them lead. living in incredibly small cages deformed from lack of exercise and hormones pumped into them to keep their egg production high. and yes baby boy chicks are ground up to make feed for the very hens that lay them.. which did it for me! thats what helped my decision to not eat them. fish is a meat so i dont personally consider that a form of vegetarianism but its still considered so by everyone else.. atleast their not eating red meat thats the worst! healthwise