Am I still a vegetarian if I eat eggs!?!?!

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Yes, you're an ovo-vegetarian (or lacto-ovo vegetarian if you also consume dairy).

Lacto-ovo vegetarian since birth

There are many different types of vegetarians. My sister is a vegetarian and she eats eggs and dairy products (milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, etc) Some people that consider themselves vegetarians even eat fish. You may be eating meat products without even realizing it: in soup (lots of soups broths and some pasta sauces have chicken stock in them) or gelatin (in jello, marshmallows, or yogurt) for example.

Vegetarian - people who don't eat meat.
Lacto vegetarian - can have dairy but not eggs
Ovo vegetarian - can have eggs but not dairy Lacto ovo vegetarian can have - eggs and dairy
Pescatarian - can have eggs, dairy and fish.
Vegan- nothing made from animal products (no chicken stock in soups, honey, fish, eggs, or dairy)

My sister is a vegetarian and I helped her look for info on it a long time ago. It kinda stuck with me

Yes, you're still a vegetarian. You're an ovo-lacto vegetarian. Ovo = eggs; lacto = milk. Or just an ovo veg if you don't eat dairy products. Most vegetarians in the United States eat eggs and diary.

No, you're not eating a baby chicken. The hens that lay most eggs in your supermarket are not exposed to a rooster, so the eggs are not fertile. You'd probably have to search for fertilized eggs if you wanted them and they'd be expensive.

1) Technically, no. If you eat eggs, you are considered an ovo-vegetarian. If you consume eggs and dairy, you'd be considered an ovo-lacto vegetarian. My point is that it's not pure vegetarianism.

There are also pescetarians which is just short for "posers."

2) You are not eating baby chickens when you eat eggs. Eggs are unfertilized, so there is no fetus inside.

Eggs are included in a vegetarian diet. Because the hens never come into contact with roosters, the eggs they lay are not fertilized and therefore, there are no baby chicks. Some people have said it's like a hen's "period".

There are ethical issues surrounding egg production and consumption, but they amount to how the hens are treated and the fact that baby male layer chicks are killed at birth.

Technically yes you are still a vegetarian if you eat eggs. Vegan is the title of someone who doesn't eat any animal product, such as eggs. Since eggs don't count as meat, you can still be a vegetarian and eat eggs.

Yes, it is fine for vegetarians to eat eggs. Vegans are the ones that avoid milk and eggs. There isn't baby chickens in eggs, but vegans don't eat them because the chickens raised to lay the eggs are treated horribly.

vegetarians eat eggs its vegans that don't

pescetarian

Yes, still a vegetarian. Not a vegan though
You're not eating baby chickens :)

I would think so. Eggs aren't meat nor flesh. A vegan wouldn't eat eggs though.

Yessss u are a vegetarian. You are just not a vegan. Vegans don't eat anything that come from an animal

yes you're still a vegetarian :)

yes, the eggs people eat are unfertilized so there are no baby chicks in them

Yes, there are vegetarian people who eat chicken but are still called vegetarian, as long as you don't eat beef, and only beef you are vegetarian.
Even I know some people who eat meat but they call themselves vegetarian.

No you are not. The categories are vegetable, animal or mineral. Eggs are not vegetable.