Why are some eggs vegetarian?

Answer 1

A lot of vegetarians wouldn't consider eggs vegetarian.

However, if hens are fed a vegetable only diet and the eggs are not fertile (if there's no rooster around), then some people would consider those vegetarian.

It's pretty near impossible to have free-range chickens who eat a strictly vegetarian diet. If they find an insect, snail, slug, worm, small mouse, frog, lizard, snake or toad, they will eat eat it.

Answer 2

The eggs are not vegetarian persay--they come from chickens who have been fed all vegetarian and sometimes organic feed--and who have been allowed to roam free--they are called "cage-free" eggs--The point is to put only good things into the chickens and to let the chickens roam about happily so that there is less negative karma probably for those who eat those eggs--they are still animal products however, and cannot be called vegetarian...

Answer 3

Only the hypo crates eats eggs and call themselves a vegetarian. I came across alot of them especially from India. Vegetarians are real menace to the society as they keep coming to non vegetarian restaurant to tailor make their request. They ask all types of silly questions and like whether your oil is made from vegetable or animal. Some don't eat garlic or onions!!! I plead with these vegetarians to look for a vegetarian restaurant and shut the gap up and eat your food.

Answer 4

You better not believe this. There are no vegetarian eggs, Just because the poultry hen are raised on vegetarian feed people claim they lay vegetarian eggs. This is a fallacy.

Answer 5

Do you mean why do vegetarians eat some eggs and not others?
If you do, it's because they don't like eggs from big companies that have bad conditions for their hens, so vegetarians get eggs from like free-range and organic places.

Answer 6

Eggs can not be vegetarian. Avoid eating eggs.

Answer 7

Eggs are vegetarian no matter what.

There are vegetarian fed hens, is that what you mean?

Answer 8

if the case of eggs is labeled vegetarian, it usually means that the hens/chickens were fed vegetarian feed. that's all.

Answer 9

Eggs are not the flesh of an animal therefore they are eaten by vegetarians. They are not, however, eaten by vegans who don't eat anything that has come from an animal.

Answer 10

Confusing question...

you mean is there such a vegetarian diet with eggs in it?

We call it ovo-vegetarian diet.