Is Egg a Vegetable or Meat Product?!

Eggs are neither vegetables or meat. There are other foods (e.g., grains) that aren't vegetables or meat either. It's incorrect to say that eggs "are" protein; eggs contain protein, but that doesn't make it meat. Meat is the flesh of an animal. I hope that makes sense.

exsft, the reason vegetarians don't eat gelatin but do eat dairy/eggs is that animals need to be killed in order to obtain gelatin, but not to obtain dairy/eggs. Also, vegans do not "wish their fellow humans cease to exist." Vegans support animal rights, and animal rights necessarily includes human rights since humans are animals. In other words, vegans, by definition, must support the rights of human beings.

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Yes, hens are often killed for eggs, but it's possible to obtain eggs without killing the hen. If someone takes care to only eat eggs obtained without hens being killed, then that would be consistent with vegetarian philosophy. On the other hand, gelatin comes from the skin and bones of animals, so animals must be killed to obtain it. See the difference?

As for your argument about vegans, you would need some statistics to back your argument up. Just saying that you have seen some (supposedly vegan) people on Yahoo Answers post anti-human comments isn't going to cut it. What percentage of vegans actually think humans should "disappear from this earth?" How does this compare to the percentage of non-vegans who believe the same? You don't know the answer to those questions, and you don't care. You just want to promote an anti-veg*n agenda without bothering to actually back up any of your claims with solid evidence.

Yes it is but conveniently acceptable since the founders of the Vegetarian Society realized that together with dairy, breakfast won't be the same without eggs and they cannot bake those fancy cakes they serve during their meetings without using eggs.
Convenient excuses are common place among vegetarians and their "rules".
Case in point, gelatin is not a "meat product" (at that point it is only just an organic chemical ) but it is a by product of animals. However nit picky vegetarians insist that they should not use gelatin since it is a by product of animals. Eggs are also by products but acceptable?? The contradiction seems to escape them. because of convenience. Vegans are even worse, pronouncing compassion etc but wish their fellow humans cease to exist so their precious animals can live an idyllic human free life.

Bull crap. How many egg laying hens do you know that have died of old age? One of the most basic and often repeated mantras of non egg eating animal "rights" vegetarians is that poor and "torturous" conditions of egg layers often leading to their premature deaths. Another is the avoidance of eating or patronizing companies that support the so called "animal abuse practices" of specific industries such as the egg industry. Again a matter of hypocritical convenience to now say , eggs are acceptable because no animal has to die blah blah blah. As for vegans, you only have to read through the voluminous answers by vegans here (and getting tons of approving thumbs up from other vegans) that humans should disappear from this earth. One vegan who now calls himself Diggum has in fact said that people who live in places where food is scarce deserve the starvation conditions they experience because they are not vegans and many agreed. But of course you "have not seen any" of this have you? Again a blind eye and another convenient excuse for argument's sake. Pathetic.

Eggs are kinda in their own category. They are not meat (Flesh/muscle) of an animal, and most definitely not a vegetable. Vegetarians eat it because most eggs (the ones at the store) have no life in them. It's just basically a chicken period. There is no chance for their to be a chicken, as no roosters are allowed near these egg laying hens, to fertilize.

Balut is a type of egg, that has a fertilized chicken in it. But you wont find that in your average super market.

Now as for most commercial eggs being cruelty free, thats another story! The chickens who lay those eggs are horribly mistreated.

I recommend getting eggs from a farm or free range/organic :)

It is an animal product, but not meat. Like milk, an unfertilized egg is produced naturally (in theory) by an animal and no animal is harmed (in theory) in its production. Nor could it ever develop into a living animal, being unfertilized, so some vegetarians eat them. "Strict vegetarians" or "vegans" avoid eating all animal products.

Egg is much like a dairy product. It is certainly NOT a vegetable and it is not an animal yet as it hasn't yet been fertilized but it is an animal PRODUCT much like milk. Vegetarians eat it because they don't feel like they are killing anything to eat it... which is a misconception. Millions of innocents die because of egg and diary eaters :(

vegetable?? where did that come from??

but no its not really either, but closer to meat. if the egg was fertilized and a chick it would be meat, but its not. i think the reason most people wouldn't eat eggs is because they don't like eggs or they dont want the hen who layed the egg to suffer. but its kinda gross to think where the egg came from... lol

The eggs that people eat are unfertilized, so more or less, it is a chicken period. No innocent animals die because of this, that is why a vegetarian could eat it. It is not, and will never be alive.

it is not meat. in my simple mind, to me meat is defined as animal muscle/flesh. an egg is an animal product but is not muscle/flesh, and it certainly not a vegetable.

Well its neither I suppose. But its closer to meat than vegetables. It is an animal product.

Vegetations eat eggs because the animal is not killed or harmed (exactly) to make the egg.

more like a dairy?
vegetarians can still eat it because although its an animal product, it is not technically meat if the chick never developed or was fertilized.
vegans are the ones who don't eat any animal products.

Meat is the flesh of an animal. An egg is not the flesh of an animal. So an egg is not meat.

Eggs are more meat products. If you eat eggs you are a vegetarian that eats eggs. You don't kill chickens to eat their eggs but you probably stress them.

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