If you are vegan for the sake of the environment or animals, I have a question for you. If you lived on a farm and owned a chicken, and you took good care of it and fed it nicely, would you still be against eating eggs, if you collected the eggs from your chicken?
I read on a vegan website that many vegans refuse to have dairy or eggs because of the terrible conditions in the modern industries. But out of curiosity, would you still be vegan if you could collect your own chicken eggs? I can understand why you wouldnt milk a cow (it might hurt the cow) but it doesn't hurt the chicken to collect the eggs it lays, and if you don't have a rooster, the eggs will never contain chicks anyway. So, vegans, what do you say?
2007-03-06 02:04:37 · 11 answers · asked by Boo 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
I look at it this way. If a wild chicken so happened to stop by and lay eggs on my doorstep and there was absolutely no chance that the eggs would contain chicks, I wouldn't have a problem with eating the eggs - it has absolulely no ill effect on the chicken whatsoever.
As an ethical vegan, I don't think that we should use animals for our own needs if it compromises their own when there are perfectly good alternatives available to us. So despite the fact that the consumption of eggs in itself is not harmful to the chicken, I wouldn't feel right to keep the chicken at all.
2007-03-07 08:01:15 · answer #1 · answered by greensong 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a vegan and I would not take the egg of chicken because it is not mine to take. I would never own a chicken because chickens are not property. Eggs are not mine to eat - I haven't eaten them in years and would feel no need to eat the secretions of an animal. I am healthy, fit and happy as a vegan and even if eggs were magically dropped on my front porch I still would not eat them.
2007-03-06 19:16:12 · answer #2 · answered by texaspice9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I would not. I don't believe in animal slavery no matter how humane. So I would not have a chicken. If, however I worked on a farm animal sanctuary I would follow their practices of breaking open the egg for the chickens to eat. I guess they really like it.
2007-03-07 11:34:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who are neither vegetarian nor vegan should not be answering questions addressed to vegans.
I am a vegan. If I had a hen, she would be a pet. I would not eat her unfertilized eggs. I would leave them out for other critters to eat.
When factory farming ends, when all hens are free of battery cages - when there is a retirement home for "spent hens" - I might consider eating an egg.
The general public does not see a difference. They don't see free range hens vs battery cage hens. It's up to the few who are willing - to set the tone. To take a stand. To speak for those with no voice.
Even here. Where I live. One of the most "sustainably farmed free range egg farms" is well known for their deplorable treatment of hens after they are "spent." Not even the benefit of a merciful death. More torture.
There is no retirement home for cows who are no longer able to breed and produce milk. They are slaughtered.
There is no retirement home for sows unable to produce any longer. They too are slaughtered.
2007-03-06 12:11:30 · answer #4 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am a vegan, but I eat this way for my health. I feel so much better when I eat this way. I never really liked meat, and as a child ate it only when forced. I don't force my children to eat meat, but I do make it available for them.
I would like to see more family farms and a return to the way farming used to be, but that has nothing do with my being a vegan. If I liked eggs, I probably would consider eating them if I owned my own chicken, but I really think they are gross.
I do still wear leather and occasionally cheat with honey. HTH
2007-03-06 17:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by MitoMom 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well, I guess I COULD eat the eggs... but it's been so long since I've had eggs, and I've started to really hate the smell of them... so I probably just wouldn't want to.
2007-03-06 21:00:58 · answer #6 · answered by PsychoCola 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not a vegan but I was a vegetarian. The answer is, no, they would not eat eggs even if they had their own chickens. They reason is actually they will not eat flesh of any sort and an egg is a chicken embryo.
2007-03-06 10:55:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
No,I really don't like eggs(I like to call them chicken periods) anymore.Also,I read that out in the wild that a hen will protect her eggs,so I wouldn't want to put her under any stress.Also eggs are just cholesterol bombs.
2007-03-06 19:43:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I posted a similar question recently. I try to balance between veggie and vegan in the following way. I am in a cow share program, where I get fresh milk from a well pampered cow, named Abigail. When she calves, I give up my milk so she can nurse. When its available, I consider her milk, cream, butter and raw cheese a gift to me, and I thank her for it. My daughter eats eggs from pampered chickens. I believe what you are saying is a perfectly reasonable approach to a fine line. I know that my cow is never hurt by milking, and gives it up regularly. She would actually be in pain if she became engorged from overproduction of milk, so I am happy to have the excess. I think responsible approaches, like your idea, are valid and reasonable. I do not feel bad about my choices, nor do I see where anyone could find fault with yours. I would love to eat eggs, but I am highly allergic to them
2007-03-06 10:51:57 · answer #9 · answered by You are MY Dinner 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I don't like eggsies, but I'd have nothing against eating nicely dropped ones like you describe. No pain inflicted there.
2007-03-06 10:08:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋