How is eating eggs and drinking milk?!

If you think of it from an ethical point of view its fine. Its only when you get into the detail of how eggs and milk are collected that you may have doubts. If you want to have eggs/milk just purchase free range/milk that way you’re not supporting something you don’t agree on. It will make you feel better and make those products that much tastier. If you think about it vegetarians don’t eat meat because it promotes killing, where as milk and eggs are sustainable produce that doesn’t cause harm. If anything reduces harm in terms of the cow.

I no longer receive nourishment from the cow's udders - admittedly some have difficulty with the weaning process. Milk comes from artificially impregnated cows and contains 59 hormones, a host of allergens, pesticides, blood and pus as a result of overmilking. Got milk? No, I am not an infant nor am I a cow. Nor am I particularly fond of poisoning my system with homogenized, pasteurized cow pus.

Most eggs come from factory farms where chickens are locked in cages never to see the light of day. They are debeaked because when they're kept in such confined spaces, they tend to attack each other. What reason was there to consume the result of a chicken's period again? Oh, right. It's all cultural.

Cage free/free range organically fed hens and open graze cows make your supposed "trapped in cages and force-fed.." argument illogical and pointless.

As for the hormone pus etc etc vegan (i suppose), think of the 27 chemical pesticides and fertilizers still found in washed, ready to eat fruits and vegetables.
http://www.examiner.com/sustainable-food…
http://www.examiner.com/sustainable-food…

people can eat whatever they want for whatever reason they want. i just think they should always know where their food comes from. i could accuse vegans of killing animals by not growing their own food because the equipment that harvests what they eat will mow through all the little critters in it's path and crush their homes too.

Yes I think you are right. But some people are not ready to make such a drastic change in their diet all at once. One step at a time.
And even those who dont plan to become vegan, I think they are doing what they can, which is more then most people can say.

Ethics are subjective. What one thinks isn't ethical another thinks it is. To me eating eggs and drinking milk is ethical. If you don't want to eat these things fine, but others do.

Quite tasty actualy

Uh...vegetarians don't eat that sh*t. But I damned sure will. With bacon, of course.

I do personally believe that the dairy and egg industries are even crueler than the meat industry. That's why I'm vegan. Many vegetarians continue to eat eggs and consume dairy, because they just don't know the truth about those industries (although I do believe that they should take the initiative to find out; especially about how the dairy industry directly supports the meat industry because of "veal"). Those that do know the truth and continue to support the egg and dairy industries, are in my opinion, hypocrites if they are vegetarians for ethical reasons.

yes it is. It is illogical for any person who abstains from meat for ethical reasons to continue to support slaughter industries. However if they only eat eggs from backyard chooks then this would not be illogical.

vegan

the animals do suffer while in the cages. but they are not being killed (though their living conditions may be worse than dying :/) that is why some vegetarians (including myself) still eat eggs and drink milk.

It isn't, most ethical vegetarians understand this and abstain. You are making what is called a strawman argument, a logical fallacy