How can Vegetarians describe eggs no matter how cooked as vegetarian,as it result in death of the egg.?!
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As others have answered, the eggs that you would buy in a supermarket are produced using modern farming methods where only females are raised from chicks and there are no males to fertilize the eggs. As a result, the eggs are not 'alive' and they would never turn into chicks. They are a by-product of the hen's reproductive cycle, just as in humans, women have a 'period' and expel their unfertilized eggs.
The lack of male chickens / roosters in modern farming methods is the result of 'sexing', that is discarding (in other words killing) male chicks immediately after hatching, leaving just the females to lay the eggs. It is this killing, often by just throwing live male chicks into large bins to be crushed, suffocated or later gassed to death) that even the more 'humane' methods of free range and organic farming still do not address. This is also why I would argue that even free range and organically produced egg production is not truly vegetarian as it relies on the killing of chickens, albeit the males rather than the females laying the eggs.
Asian vegetarians traditionally do not regard eggs as vegetarian, not because of the 'sexing' reason above but because, in traditional farming methods, hens often did have contact with males and so eggs often may have been fertilized. Where this was possible, eggs may well have been viable embryos which may have hatched into chicks. As a result, Asian vegetarians do not eat eggs, but will consume dairy products.
I hope this helps. Thanks for question!
The egg has no animal inside. The egg comes from a female chicken, but has no baby in it, because the male has not fertilized it. If the egg was fertilized by the male there would be a growing chicken inside of it. But people don't (normally) eat the eggs with chickens in them. Eggs sold at the store have not been touched by the male chicken. There is no life being lost by eating a chicken egg because no life was inside of the egg. Vegetarians eat eggs because they aren't eating any dead animal of any kind. BUT a vegan would not eat an egg because it came out of an animal. Like many vegans don't eat honey because they are taking from the bees.
Basically, eggs are vegetarian because nothing is dead/ dying so we can eat it.
It is like humans. When the female's egg is not fertilized by sperm, there is no life created.
I am a vegetarian and very interested in animal rights.
Most, but not all, vegetarians actually do consume eggs, while vegans do not eat eggs, milk, or use any animal products whatsoever.
The main reason that vegans and some vegetarians chose not to consume eggs is because they disapprove of the harsh treatment of chickens during the process, such as being crowded in small cages, and do not want to support it in any way.
I don't know much about chicken biology, however, I have heard that chickens often do not hatch eggs that are fertile, meaning that I chick never would have hatched from the egg in the first place.
Yet, most vegans and vegetarians are opposed to how they are treated or like the benefits of not consuming any animal products. As a result, the fact that a chick would never have hatched from the egg is irrelevant to many vegans and some vegetarians.
Further explanation about he different types of vegetarians and the difference between vegetarians and vegans is discussed in the following two articles that I wrote:
Explains the Different Types of Vegetarians
http://www.recipes-for-vegetarians.com/typesofvegetarian.html (copy & paste)
Compares Vegetarians and Vegans
http://www.recipes-for-vegetarians.com/veganvsvegetarian.html
I hope this is helpful!
Linda from Recipes-for-Vegetarians.com
Recipes-for-Vegetarians.com
You can't. All commercially sold eggs are INFERTILE. They would never develop or hatch. The only viable eggs are fertilized eggs, and they are not readily available and are seldom used for food. Ovo-lacto (egg/dairy) vegetarians don't feel the need to defend their consumption of eggs and dairy for the simple fact that no life has been taken to yield those foods.
If you chose not to consume eggs, then don't. Strict vegans don't eat animal "products" and don't feel the need to defend one category from another.
Eggs are pretty much reproductive cells plus tissue. Unless it is fertilized, you can't "kill" it. It's kind of like a period in that sense. It contains a reproductive cell, plus tissue that would be needed to nourish the embryo/fetus until birth. Unless the hen mates, there will be no embryo and therefore you can't "kill" it.
While the analogy is not perfect (for a number of reasons), it is a bit like a menstrual period. The basic function is the same. Mammals and birds both will release eggs (reproductive cells) and prepare a suitable gestational environment whether they are mating or not. If they do mate, they are ready to grow a wee one, either in an egg or in their uterus. If they don't mate, though, the cell and the growing environment pass on through. Mammals have periods. Birds have eggs that will never hatch.
Eating an unfertilized egg is no more killing something that a woman having her period is having a miscarriage. Unless the egg was fertilized, there is nothing there.
An egg isn't a living being. It's something a chicken lays every couple of days, much like how a human woman would be on a period
If during the gestation time, the hen has intercourse with a rooster, then the egg is fertilised and so will contain the embryo of a baby chick. If this doesn't happen (which in most egg farms it won't) then the egg has never, and will never contain a baby chicken and it safe to eat.
The egg is not life. Eggs get laid regardless if their is a rooster around or not. So if a hen lays a egg with no rooster around there is no result of loss of light because there never was a chicken in the egg.
And there is no such thing as a lacto vegan. I don't care what idiots say.
Vegetarian= eating no meat but may still eat eggs, milk and other dairy. If they don't drink milk but eat eggs then they are just a vegetarian that does not drink milk.
VEGAN= a person who does not eat, drink, or wear anything that comes from a animal or animal byproduct. If someone says they are a vegan but they drink milk then they are actually a vegetarian. Its that simple.
However even though the unfertilized egg is not life chickens used for that purpose (even free range organic) still gets bad treatment, shorter life, and in the end they are chopped up for meat so how about stay away from a animals tit and their period and be a vegan :P
VEGAN/ US ARMY/ MALE
As others have said, eggs are like chicken periods. Hens lay eggs regardless of whether roosters are around or not. This is something they have evolved to do (not been selectively bred to do) for numerous reasons (though they are still very unusual in this respect in the bird kingdom, though this is probably one of the many reasons why we domesticated them in the first place).
I would also like to say though that;
a. No chicken that you eat has ever laid an egg, and no egg laying chicken will ever end up on your dinner table. There are too completely different commercial breeds of chicken for egg laying & meat production- egg laying takes a lot out of chicken so egg laying hens don't tend to put on a lot of weight (and so don't make good meat chickens). Meat chickens tend to either be male or are of a breed which has been selectively breed to put on weight rather than lay eggs, and by the time it such chickens are slaughtered they are not mature enough to lay eggs.
When the egg laying hens are past their prime egg laying days they are sent to slaughter and end up as pet food like dog or cat food.
While there are certainly some barbaric practices in farming when it comes to chicken farming like battery farming (this is for egg laying chickens only BTW), not all chicken farms are bad and there are some excellent free range chicken farms out there. There are also better barn range chicken standards coming about after the RSPCA made efforts to reduce the stocking densitities in chicken barns (which is the main issue with barn range chicken farming) and add things like perchs inside the barns etc ( http://www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/camp… ).
Some people prefer to have nothing to do with chickens whatsover because of some of the welfare issues involved in some chicken farming methods, and i totally respect their decision on that. But as for me personally, i prefer to support free range (preferably organic) chicken farming with my consumer choices as free range farming would not exist at all if people didn't support it and while a lot of free range farming is not perfect, i still think it is a hundred times better than battery farming or the high stocking density barn range farming for the chickens involved ^_^v .
LOL cracking!!
Ok an egg is basically a hen having a period, unless the egg is fertilised then the egg is indeed nothing more than just a sack of goo. So there is no animal in there nor any life form. The egg is what a human woman has in her womb except the hen lays the egg. So if its not fertilised by a rooster then its just an egg and nothing more.
The eggs are laid regardless of whether the hen has got jiggy or not just like they are with us ladies.
Hope that helps you understand!
eggs are just chicken periods yeah, they ain't fertilized. It's just like when us women are having our time of the month, the eggs are useless if they don't get fertilized.
The thing I don't agree with is the way chickens are treated to get those eggs which is why I don't really eat eggs but when I do, I make sure they are free range.
lacto-ovo vegetarian
The eggs we buy in the stores are NOT fertilized, so there is no baby chicks in them - you are not killing a baby chick by eating them.
Chickens lay eggs all the time, regardless whether they are fertilized or not. The chickens that lay eggs for human consumption are kept separated from the rest of the chickens and the roosters.
Not all eggs are live.
Some eggs are fertilised by the chicken, and these are the start of a chick.
Other eggs are hatched but they are not fertilised and can never be chickens- these are benign eggs and all chickens lay them.
So, they are never a living creature.
Eggs are not embryonic chickens. They are infertile and therefore non-living. hens kept for egg laying never come anywhere near a male bird.
unless the egg is fertilized it's not an animal, just a would be chicken.
the eggs are UNFERTILIZED, so they were never going to be born into chickens.
Eggs are not vegetarian food. Some people claim it to be, but it's not.
there are some sorts of vegans who eat eggs, fish and drink milk....lactose vegans I think they call em....