Why is milk considered a veg food while egg is considered a non-veg food when both are obtained from animals?

Answer 1

Some are Vegan and some Vegetarian. Vegan's don't want anything that has come from the animal what so ever, and Vegetarian's don't eat meat but might still consume milk. Why they don't eat the egg (yolk/embro) as well could be because, although it's not "meat" An egg when hatched becomes a baby chick, and that in their mind that is still considered a life killed. Or it could be that they just don't like eggs. It really depends on the person and "THEIR" reasons. Hope that helped.

Answer 2

The majority of vegetarians eat eggs and milk. Some will only eat one or the other, and then there's vegans who will not eat either.

The only reason I can think of why one would eat milk and not eggs, is that they feel the eggs could have become chickens. However, if you only eat infertile eggs (a chicken will lay eggs regardless of whether or not there is a rooster around), then that's not an issue. I have my own chickens and their eggs can never produce life as I dont' have a rooster. Then again... the modern egg industry typically does not treat their chickens very well. They live in horribly cramped quarters and are often pecked to death and suffer injuries and mutilation from living shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds of other birds. Before I got my chickens, I only bought free-range eggs so I knew I wasn't contributing to that.

Milk never requires the death of an animal... HOWEVER... our modern dairy industry DOES promote the death of cows via the veal industry. Calves are taken away from dairy cows at birth and raised in veal crates until they are slaughtered.

Anyway... if you're not careful, both milk and eggs are linked to cruelty. However if you spend the extra money to buy free-range eggs and get your milk from a local dairy that does not supply the veal industry with calves... no harm is done (in my opinion).

Answer 3

Sorry to burst your bubble but milk isnt considered a veg food. Real vegetarians dont eat milk, eggs, or meat of any kind. Vegetarians drink rice milk, almond milk, or soy milk mostly.

Some vegetarians called lacto vegetarians drink milk and eat other dairy products.

Hope this answer helps

Answer 4

I would not label either as a "veg food" because they are not veggies. All vegetarians have one thing in common..they do not eat the flesh of a dead animal. Some vegetarians do eat eggs and dairy and some don't but since eggs and dairy are not flesh from a dead animal..it's all a matter of preference.

Answer 5

Milk is not considered a veg food...not sure where your sources are coming from.

Milk is a product of a cow which is an animal, last time I checked?

Answer 6

Milk is one of those 'gray areas'.

Ovo-lacto vegetarians eat eggs and milk. Vegans do not eat either,nor meat.

Milk,however,comes from animals. It's not an actual -animal-,nor did it ever have the possibility of becoming one,such as an egg.

Most vegetarians would rather drink milk than eat an egg,if it came down to it.

Answer 7

It depends on how you define vegetarian. Ovo-lacto vegetarians eat dairy (mil) products and eggs. Only vegans insist on no animal products and won't even eat honey.

Many are vegetarian because they don't want anything killed for their food and neither milk nor eggs require killing an animal.

Some have religious reasons for not eating certain things, but likely the majority of vegetarians fall into the nonkill school and do eat eggs and/or milk products. The vegan diet is inherently deficient and not at all wise. Some insist on it for a variety of reasons.

Answer 8

Milk and eggs are both vegetarian. Vegetarians don't eat meat, but can eat milk and eggs if they want to. Here's the breakdown of definitions.

vegetarian (general) = a person who doesn't eat meat (including fish and poultry)
lacto-vegetarian = a person who does not eat meat or eggs, but eats milk products
ovo-vegetarian = a person who does not eat meat or milk products, but ears eggs
lacto-ovo-vegetarian = a person who does not eat meat, but eats eggs and milk products
vegan = a person who does not eat ANY animal products

What you're probably thinking of is a vegan. Vegetarians can eat eggs and milk products if they want, but vegans can't.

Hope that helped!

Answer 9

Eggs, dairy products and honey are all animal products. Vegetarians may eat them but vegans (strict vegetarians) draw the line at all animal products and/or by-products.

In fact, if you live a vegan lifestyle as well, you avoid or try to avoid leather, suede, silk and wool of all types, as well as wearing pearls or coral. Some vegans also won't take any meds in capsule form because the capsules contain animal-based gelatin.

Answer 10

Niether of those foods is vegetarian.
If you eat milk you are a lactovegetarian.
If you eat mild and eggs you are an ovalactovegetarian.

If you eat no meat products at all you are a vegetarian and your diet is vegan.