Question about being vegetarian/eating eggs?!
Answers: Hi all, so im thinking about going vegetarian/just exploring vegetarian foods right now. when I made this commitment to myself, I said I didn’t want to eat eggs. I thought an egg like the ones youd buy from the supermarket came from 2 chickens who you know, did it, and represents an animal life that would grow within that egg. But I was reading some yahoo answers where like people said a chicken egg is like a human period, there was no potential for life there. ok, maybe I don’t get this process, so how is a chicken egg made then if it wasn’t made by 2 chickens who you know, were doing it?
The kind you buy in the stores are unfertilized. Chickens, like humans, produce eggs whether or not they have sex. The eggs come out whether or not they have sex.
In order to make a new animal, you need DNA from both the female (as an egg) and the male (as a sperm). Reproductive cells are the only ones that contain half of the chromosomes. You need to bring two complimentary cells together in order to start the process of cell division.
Just like a male can produce sperm without "doing it" (let alone fathering a child), a woman can produce an egg all on her own. A fertilized egg, however, takes both a sperm and an egg.
I'm pretty sure that chickens can only lay eggs that have the potential to grow at certain periods of time. I would suggest that you eat eggs but only from free range chickens. That way you're only supporting humane animal treatment apposed to certain farms where they keep their hens in metal cages where they cannot sit down, sleep, reach their food or ever experience grass, sunlight or the ability to walk. It's extremely sad how these animals are treated! They also breed their own chickens at these egg farms.. so obviously the roosters don't make any profit- they literally pick through newly born chicks pull out the males and throw them in the trash. I commend you for wanting to become a vegetarian. I myself was one for 10 years. I recently stopped because I was getting sick sooooo often about 2 times a month. Being a vegetarian is not for everyone (including me- now) but I think it would be great if more people looked in to human treatment of animals breed for food. There are currently no laws that protect the treatment of animals that are breed to be consumed. You should look into the book "Diet for a new America" by John Robbins if you're interested in learning more. ;)
you don't have to worry about that, the egg did not have potential for life, some eggs are ones with actual chicks in them, and the ones you get at the supermarket have just the yoke, trust me, you will never crack an egg w/ a chick in it over your pan!!!
I am not sure but don't they keep laying eggs and the ones that dont become fertilized are the ones you buy in the market
Hi mate - the egg form the chicken you eat is NOT a small unhatched chicken - its unfertilised and thus has no embryo. All safe to eat as a vegetarian.
Eat away!!
uh not quite sure what your asking?
however eggs are chickens
they're just not develeoped yet?
its sorta like when a baby is formed in the woman's whom
My friend from India eats eggs.
He is a vegetarian. He also feeds eggs not dog food to his dog.
Try hummus for a protein.
You could also speak with a nutritionist to get a whole picture what your options are.
eggs are like chicken periods, yes but different
chickens lay eggs wheather they do it or not
the egg will not hatch if the chicken hasn't done it recently
but if it has, it will lay a fertile egg which will hatch a chick
the eggs at the supermarked are non-fertile
so there is no chance for life
hens always lay eggs, whether it was fertilized or not. The ones that were fertilized will not be sold and you dont have to worry about eating one bacause they are processed so there is no baby chicken inside of it.
eating eggs is still harming the chickens. if you see what they do to the chickens you'll see. they abuse the chickens to get the eggs. and some of those eggs still have life.
a chicken doesn't have to have sex to lay an egg. no i don't think it is like a human period because you can get what they call laying hens that lay eggs for a few years with or with out the rooster. No you are not eating a chicken embryo, no it is not an aborted chicken.
A chicken egg isn't fertilized. You can safely eat it unless you are going vegan.
Chicken eggs that you eat aren't fertilized yet, it only comes from the mother hen. Without the egg being fertilized there is no possibility of it living.
But, you also should think about all of the horrible things egg laying chickens go through. If you don't know what happens to them checkout some videos on PETA.com or some other website.
Good luck with your vegetarianism. (:
an egg is made by 2 chicken, but while the egg is first hatched, life is still being developed, a chicken is still isnt developed yet,
it is only FERTILIZED if 2 chickens did the humpty hump. The chicken will lay eggs whether or not she has been laid herself... So eggs from the store are definitely NOT a form of life (it is kinda like a human period i guess, but it happens way more often) However...depending on your reasons for being a vegetarian you may want to pass on the eggs anyway because the conditions in which the chickens are kept are pretty bad so if you are being vegetarian because you want animals to be treated humanely you wanna buy eggs from "free range" chickens from trader joes or someplace like that...
Not all eggs are fertilized!
Hens will lay eggs with or without a rooster.
To all you idiots that think all eggs can hatch... Grow a brain and pay attention. Hens do not need to get laid to lay eggs.
Also, most egg farms treat their hens very well. They have the best diets and better health care than most school children. If you want to be sure they're treated well, buy "Free Range" eggs. Those hens are not kept in cramped coupes.
Chickens lay eggs whether or not the egg was fertilized. There has to be two chickens "doing it" for it to have potential to grow into a chick.
By the way, most vegetarians eat eggs, but vegans avoid eggs.
the egg came before the chicken or was it the chicken before the egg? eny way if you eat an egg it means nothing.If your a vegetarian than you can only eat vegetables fish or poultry. Well that's my take on the situation.
well im a vegetarian and i dont eat eggs.
eggs that are made to be eaten are not made by two chickens reproducing. rather it is a like human period. the egg is not fertilized.
now this would make you think, oh its fine to eat eggs now right? no, not right. the hens are treated HORRIBLY who are being bred to make eggs. in their entire lifespan they wont be able to spread even one wing.
but, most of all:
GO VEGETARIAN !
its tha bommb yo.
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Eggs don't just appear by themselves..... They were produced after 2 chickens "did it"
The shape of an egg is an ovate spheroid with one end larger than the other end. The egg has cylindrical symmetry along the long axis.
An egg is surrounded by a thin, hard shell. Inside, the egg yolk is suspended in the egg white by one or two spiral bands of tissue called the chalazae (from the Greek word khalazi, meaning hailstone or hard lump.)
[edit] Air cell
The larger end of the egg contains the air cell that forms when the contents of the egg cool down and contract after it is laid. Chicken eggs are graded according to the size of this air cell, measured during candling. A very fresh egg has a small air cell and receives a grade of AA. As the size of the air cell increases, and the quality of the egg decreases, the grade moves from AA to A to B. This provides a way of testing the age of an egg: as the air cell increases in size, the egg becomes less dense and the larger end of the egg will rise to increasingly shallower depths when the egg is placed in a bowl of water. A very old egg will actually float in the water and should not be eaten.[13]
Shell
Main article: Eggshell
Egg shell color is caused by pigment deposition during egg formation in the oviduct and can vary according to species and breed, from the more common white or brown to pink or speckled blue-green. In general, chicken breeds with white ear lobes lay white eggs, whereas chickens with red ear lobes lay brown eggs.[14] Although there is no significant link between shell color and nutritional value, there is often a cultural preference for one color over another. For example, in most regions of the United States, chicken eggs are generally white; while in the northeast of that country and in the United Kingdom, they are generally light-brown. In Brazil and Poland, white chicken eggs are generally regarded as industrial, and brown or reddish ones are preferred.
White (Albumen)
Main article: Egg white
[edit] Yolk
Main article: Egg yolk
The yolk in a newly laid egg is round and firm. As the yolk ages it absorbs water from the albumen which increases its size and causes it to stretch and weaken the vitelline membrane (the clear casing enclosing the yolk). The resulting effect is a flattened and enlarged yolk shape.
Yolk color is dependent on the diet of the hen; if the diet contains yellow/orange plant pigments known as xanthophylls, then they are deposited in the yolk, coloring it. A colorless diet can produce an almost colorless yolk. Farmers may enhance yolk color with artificial pigments, or with natural supplements rich in lutein (marigold petals are a popular choice), but in most locations, this activity is forbidden.
Abnormalities
A hardboiled double-yolked egg, cut in half
A hardboiled double-yolked egg, cut in half
Some hens will lay double-yolked eggs as the result of unsynchronized production cycles. Although heredity causes some hens to have a higher propensity to lay double-yolked eggs, these occur more frequently as occasional abnormalities in young hens beginning to lay.[citation needed] Usually a double-yolked egg will be longer and thinner than an ordinary single-yolk egg. Double-yolked eggs occur rarely, only leading to observed successful hatchings under human intervention, as the unborn chickens would otherwise fight each other and die.[15]
It is also possible for a young hen to produce an egg with no yolk at all. Yolkless eggs are usually formed about a bit of tissue that is sloughed off the ovary or oviduct. This tissue stimulates the secreting glands of the oviduct and a yolkless egg results.
a vegetarian who eats eggs is called an ovo-vegetarian. chicken eggs are just like a "human period" as you put it and, as in humans, they require a rooster to become fertile and to hatch.
Chickens are capable of laying many more eggs than they can care for. The eggs sold in stores are unfertilised and refrigerated besides.
Due to hen has no uterus like human, the ovum (egg) will not move to uterus like human do, but move out from the body with a protective shell (egg shell).
Not matter the egg is fertilized by sperm in the hen's body (which when the male and female did it) OR NOT, the ovum (egg) will still move out from the body.
Like human, no matter we have sex or not, an ovum (normally) will still move to the uterus each month as well. If getting lucky, baby will come out after 10 months(normally?), else she will be getting period. :)
Those eggs that we usually buy from the supermarket, due to mass producing, they need more spaces for more hens to produce eggs, that's why they won't waste any spaces for rooster. Since hens are separated from rooster, these eggs won't produce chicks in any reason. In this case, you can say that the eggs have no life.
But! do you know that those men who run the mass production of eggs is actually giving something (I'm not sure what) to the hens, that forcing those hens to produce as much eggs as they can (not sure if all countries are like that). Some hens due to producing eggs too frequently than they normally do, they bleed!! And the worse thing is they are still producing eggs while they are bleeding!! If you realize, quite often we can see eggs with some dark spots... those probably are bloods.
It is up to you to decide whether to take eggs or not.
Chickens ovulate weather or not they have been bred, the eggs that you buy at the supermarket have not been fertilized. Even the ones with brown spots in them have not been fertilized.
However, as you will see here http://www.humanefood.ca/docs/FactSheets... chickens still suffer the cruelty of modern farming. Although, you can purchase certified organic, cruelty free, free-range eggs which I consider quite humane. These are available at most supermarkets and health food stores.
Unfertilized eggs aren't babies. They are eggs. Just like a woman's period. She sheds an unfertilized egg.
An egg is like a chicken period. They will lay them with out a rooster. The egg would never turn into a chicken. How ever don't buy eggs that are factory farmed. Try buying local family farmed eggs from a farmers market or something similar. Free rage is a myth. Check out my sources.
The eggs sold in markets are unfertilized, though I have found a few over the years that had baby chicks half formed inside. I'm a vegan, so my choice to not eat eggs is based on the cruelty behind it, not whether or not it's a living organism. The hens are treated in a horrific manner: their beaks are cut, they "live" in very cramped spaces, and they are often starved for weeks on end in order to shock their bodies into producing a single egg. Of course many of them die through that treatment, and the remaining ones are left to live alongside the dead hens, until they eventually die from starvation, malnutrition, or abuse.
This is very simple.
Egg-laying hens lay eggs whether they have a mate or not.
99.9999% of them live in places like this:
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/issues/fact...
The entire warehouse, or whatever you wish to call it, is full of females only because they kill all of the males when they are tiny chicks. That way there is no chance of eggs becoming fertilized and they don't have to waste money feeding animals that won't make eggs in return.
Are you joking me? Eggs don't just appear by themselves..... They were produced after 2 chickens "did it" or HAD SEX.
Yes. When two chickens love eachother very much, they have a baby chicken.
Then we eat that baby chicken fetus.