i have a question for vegans?!

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My parents get their milk and eggs from a local farm (friends of ours), and I've seen the animals on the farm, so I'm certain the animals are treated well. Personally, I don't drink the milk or eat the eggs although I don't have as much of an issue with it.

For me, I don't drink milk because I don't like the idea of taking and drinking another animal's breast milk. Eggs to me are a chicken fetus (or just an egg if unfertilized but that still sounds bad). As far as cruelty, an egg doesn't feel pain (of course not an unfertilized one), but it just makes me uncomfortable to eat. Taking away an egg from its brooding mother also seems a bit presumptuous.

In any case, I DO believe buying the produce from a local farm or having your own farm is a better alternative to buying the goods from a store. Even if not technically "vegan" you are choosing to do something that is better ethnically and environmentally. To me, a label isn't as important as doing what you feel is best.

Are you still a vegan?


Anyways, I'm a vegetarian, but I'd for sure rather eat eggs and drink milk from my own farm. That way I know that they're not being harmed. Plus, it depends on what farm your products come from. Some farms have been caught abusing animals for milk and eggs, but some don't.

vegans don't eat anything that are or are from animals / living

I think one day I may have rescued hens and I might eat their eggs, or I might not. I'll probably use them to fee the other animals I have. I won't drink milk though, because since going vegan I have become lactose intolerant. I know this from accidentally having a pastry which had dairy in it (stupid shop worker didn't know butter was dairy) and it made me sick.

It's interesting to note that since no mammal is meant to consume milk beyond infancy in general they do not tolerate milk in the diet. The sugar in milk is digested by an enzyme called lactase but any people do not produce this beyond infancy, making them lactose intolerant. Humans have only been consuming dairy for about 7000 years so it is a recent adaptation to continue producing the lactase enzyme in adulthood (generally we don't produce chemicals that don't get used as it is a waste of energy). In fact some ethnic groups where dairy is not a part of the diet never produce it, eg many Asian people are lactose intolerant. Anyway I think that many people will stop producing this enzyme if they aren't regularly consuming dairy.