Are eggs considered meat to vegetarians?

Answer 1

Vegitarians: YES

Vegans : NO

Answer 2

Eggs are defined as flesh food because if they were fertilized they would hatch, and even if they are not fertilized they are still potentially fowl. On the home page of your-vegetarian-kitchen.com you will find some discussion about this.

Samuel Johnson said : "An egg is a chicken in potencia!" Also in the book "The Secret Life of Plants" the author talks about the shock registered by the plants which were hooked up to highly sensitive lie detectors when he broke an egg into his dog's dish. The book is worth a read.

Answer 3

No, they're just eggs. Not meat, not nonmeat, just eggs.

Vegetarians are defined as eating a combination of vegetables and either milk or eggs, or both.

Vegans on the other hand, don't eat any kind of animal products whatsoever.

Answer 4

nope.

Commercial eggs are unfertilized. Therefore they could not become a chick.No hen, incubator, or human could turn them into a baby chick. They are not an unborn animal, they are not meat, they are not a life or a potential life.

They're the equivalent of the unfertilized egg a 13 year-old virgin sheds every month.

Even if a hen never sees a rooster in her life, she will still lay eggs like clockwork..



Most "vegetarians" are lacto-ovo, meaning they eat eggs and dairy, but no flesh. In otherwords.. as long as no animal had to die so I could eat it, I'll eat it.

Again.. an egg is not an animal or a potential animal, as long as it's unfertilized.

VEGANS, however eat no animal PRODUCT including eggs and milk.

Answer 5

Depends. The typical Indian/Hindu type of vegetarianism (lacto-vegetarian) includes dairy products but eggs are considered "non-veg."

Most non-Indian vegetarians seem to eat eggs, except for vegans.

Give me thumbs down if you want. I'm married to an Indian and what I wrote is a fact.

Answer 6

It depends what vegetarian you're talking to.

I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian and ate eggs and drank milk.

There's also lacto vegetarian who drinks milk, but doesn't eat eggs.

There's an ovo vegetarian who eats eggs but forgos the milk.

Answer 7

Unfertilized eggs contain a large quantity of protein in the form of albumin (the white stuff). Most true vegetarians will not eat eggs or drink milk, prefering to obtain protein from beans, nuts, and soy.

Answer 8

There are different types of vegetarians. If you want to eat eggs, you're still allowed to.

Answer 9

No.

Nor are they aborted chickens like some omnis loooove to say in debates with vegetarians. They're unfertilized. Chicken periods, essentially.

In response to "I would like to know, too. Also, milk. If you don't milk a cow, can't it die?"
Do women die if they don't breastfeed? A cow ONLY produces milk to breastfeed her calf. Cows do not just naturally produce milk at any time, only after they have a baby, just like humans.

Answer 10

Some vegetarians don't consider them meat, they would be ovo-vegans. Some do, they'd be called strict vegans.

I will eat them, for instance, but I prefer free range because it's not as cruel.

Answer 11

some..theres a wide range of vegetarians. some that only not eat meat, and some that dont eat dairy products and eggs and stuff like that.