Quorn what are your thoughts?!
Do you really consider this to be a vegeterian product?
I don't... see quip below!
the leading brand of mycoprotein food product in the UK[1] and a leading brand elsewhere. Mycoprotein is a generic term for protein-rich foodstuffs made from processed edible fungus.
Quorn is produced as both a cooking ingredient and a range of ready meals. Quorn is sold (largely in Europe but also in other parts of the world) as a healthy food and an alternative to meat, especially for vegetarians. As it uses egg white as a binder, it is not suitable for vegans.
***Aren't eggs necessarily considered meat, since it is the fetus of a chicke?***
Answers: Vegetarians, what is your thoughts on this?
Do you really consider this to be a vegeterian product?
I don't... see quip below!
the leading brand of mycoprotein food product in the UK[1] and a leading brand elsewhere. Mycoprotein is a generic term for protein-rich foodstuffs made from processed edible fungus.
Quorn is produced as both a cooking ingredient and a range of ready meals. Quorn is sold (largely in Europe but also in other parts of the world) as a healthy food and an alternative to meat, especially for vegetarians. As it uses egg white as a binder, it is not suitable for vegans.
***Aren't eggs necessarily considered meat, since it is the fetus of a chicke?***
I don't eat eggs because I am vegan, but they are suitable for vegetarians. Eggs are a single cell, the equivalent of menstrual waste, not a fetus. For a fetus to develop the egg must have been fertilized and the eggs available in the grocery store are not. I think the treatment of laying hens is a far more compelling reason to eschew eggs than the (incorrect) idea that you're eating a fetus.
It is condsidered a vegetarian product, most vegetarians are of the lacto-ovo variety which means they eat eggs and dairy. If you don't eat eggs then you would be lacto vegetarian.
An unfertilized egg is not a chicken fetus. I don't eat eggs, but using one in a product does not render the product unsuitable for a vegetarian diet.
no eggs are not considered meat. a product that contains eggs is considered vegetarian but not vegan. they plainly state that they are not a vegan product. if you feel that eggs are meat and therefore would not eat them that's very understandable, but then you would more likely fall under the label of vegan...
there's enough confusion as it is.... there are people that think if you eat chicken your a vegetarian! geesh. so for now the steady guidelines is... no flesh- vegetarian, no animal products- vegan.
i'll eat quorn, but it's not my favorite product. kinda rubbery.
This is a constant discussion topic between vegans and vegetarians I think.
Some eggs do not contain unborn chickens, if there were only female chooks (hens) around (if you had some biology in school, you know why). Therefore some people think they are vegetarian.
Other people think that most eggs contain unborn chicken, because you cannot really control if there were only hens on a farm. Also, the argument is, that eggs are animal based food, and vegetarians and / or vegans should eat only plants.
Vegetarians in India often do not eat eggs, because all eggs are considered unborn life.
As for Quorn, I would not eat it also for the reason, that they use eggs coming from factory farming, and THIS is always bad, for the poor chooks and for the health (all the stress hormones, the antibiotics, the GMO/worst quality/processed animal remains-"food" the chickens get to eat).
eggs are not chicken, not yet born
I try my best to avoid highly processed foodstuffs. Like Quorn. Why used processed mushroom foodstuffs when fresh mushrooms have more nutrients? Use three different kinds and make a mushroom loaf. Far better than something that is processed, packaged, frozen, shipped, semi-thawed in transit, refrozen, blah blah blah...
Seitan is my favorite fake meat. I make it myself. It freezes well and is very diverse to cook with.
Eggs are not the fetus of chicks. When a human female's eggs has not been fertilized it comes out as a period. Well when a chickens egg has not been fertilized it still lays an egg but it hasn't got a chick inside. They are the eggs we eat. Some people think that the yolk of an egg is the chick but it isn't, the yolk is meant to be there so that the chicks can get food while they are inside the eggs.