ok so i have a few questions for vegans but veggies pleas feel free to comment !?!

1. If you kept your own chickens, would you eat their eggs?
A. No. At one point, I thought I would, but eggs really aren't that healthy and if you think about it, they're kind of gross - being chicken periods and all. I would love to see a bunch of chickens running around though. They're silly little birds.

2. If you treated them well and humanely slaughtered them, would you eat chickens?
A. No. One thing I will never do again is eat any animal. I firmly believe that the meat and dairy industries and our culture have lied to us when they tell us that we are omnivores. Humans thrive on a herbivorous diet, and I know many meat-eaters will disagree, but facts are facts. We have the long, cilia-filled intestines of an herbivore, we have the teeth of an herbivore, and we don't have the strength of a predator, nor do we have the claws of one either. Science and anthropology says that our appendixes may have been a second stomach - something commonly seen in herbivores.
Aside from that logic, meat is clearly unhealthy for humans. It's packed with saturated fat and cholesterol, which gives us heart disease. Meat sits in our intestines for 72 hours and basically rots - being that our body temperature runs at about 98.6...it's like leaving hot meat in the sun.
As for the ethics part, George Bernard Shaw said it best: "Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends."

3. If you had your own cow, would you use her milk?
A. Nope. Milk is for her baby, which she would have to have to produce that milk. I wouldn't want to steal food from a baby calf. Even so, dairy is virtually poison to us. After the age of two, children became lactose intolerant. The enzymes we carried in our stomach to digest milk go away. So basically, anyone age three and above is lactose intolerant. Dairy is also packed with saturated fat and cholesterol, and is bad for your heart.

These are very good questions, by the way. Thanks for asking. :3

Vegan

1- possibly, although it's more likely i would use them to feed other animals

2- definitely not, they will die of old age

3- since becoming vegan I can no longer eat dairy. It is unnatural for humans to continue to consume dairy beyond infancy so once I stopped eating it my body stopped producing the lactase enzyme as it was no longer needed. So I'll never eat dairy again as it'll make me sick. But from the ethical standpoint I wouldn't anyway, as the cow would need to produce a calf and the calf must be isolated so it can't drink the milk. I worked on a farm in 1997 and will never forget the anguished cries of the cows who had their calves taken away. So the only ethical source of milk would be if the calf died naturally and the cow had to be milked to ease the pressure of fluid buildup, but again this could be fed to other animals (in fact you can mix this with cereal or stale bread to feed chicks). Plus I wouldn't be breeding cows if I took in some rescued ones so unless fences between bulls and heifers failed to keep them isolated this would never happen in the first place.

vegan biologist

I'm a vegetarian, but a vegan would do none of those things or they would stop being a vegan. Using animal products of any kind is non-vegan.

I believe that a vegan would absolutely support others doing those things as opposed to buying eggs and dairy from the store, but still would not consider it vegan.

One of my students has pet chickens and the family eats their eggs. They would NEVER slaughter them. They're pets!

As for milk, if I had a cow who was giving milk, I'd probably also have a hungry calf. I wouldn't mind using any leftovers, but mini-Bessie would get first dibs.

Yes, I would eat eggs, but I would not buy chickens from a breeding business- who knows what conditions there are, where do they put the hens after they stop breeding, what do they do with lame chicks, etc. I would love to adopt rescue hens, though.

No, I don't believe an animal's life is ours to take even if we treat them nicely before we slaughter them. It seems to me to be 'Oh, we fed you. So now we're gonna kill you and eat you.' Well, you obviously never cared for it that much (emotionally), or gave that chicken any more respect than you would an inanimate object.

If I had a cow and it just magically happened to give milk, then sure. But cows have to be impregnated to produce milk, and then what would you do with the calf?

1. I would not eat them myself, but I might consider feeding them to my pets if they provided nutrition. Otherwise, there really isnt much use for a chickens waste product.
2. No, I would not kill and eat a companion animal, regardless of species.
3. If I had a cow that was producing milk, its milk would go to it's calf, not to any human. Cows, like every other mammal produce milk for the purpose of feeding their offspring.

My dogs are on a raw meat diet, as they are facultative carnivores..meaning mostly meat with a few veggies here and there. I am vegan. My husband does eat some meat.

So to question 1. I would keep the eggs for my dogs and husband to eat.
2. Yes, for my husband and dogs. But I wouldn't eat it.
3. Yes, for my husband. But having a cow would be a complete waste of money since only one of us would use the milk.

no vegans don't eat animal products in general. Vegans can't even have marshmallows or honey.
I would know ,I am a vegan.

No,no, and no. I don't think humans need animal products! Cows milk is for cows NOT humans!

yes, yes and yes