Do Vegetarians Eat Eggs?

Question

I have been wondering if vegetarians eat eggs. I love meat and everything but it crossed my mind once. Do you think you can tell me?

I am a gymnast and cannot and will not become a vegetarian because I need the protein.

Answer 1

Ovo vegetarians and lacto-ovo vegetarians eat eggs.


Lacto vegetarians, strict vegetarians, and vegans don't.

Answer 2

Yes, many vegetarians eliminate meat and slaughter byproducts, but keep dairy and eggs in their diet on the grounds that no animal had to die for them. Vegans, on the other hand, do not eat any food of animal origin.

You could become a vegetarian if you really wanted to. Contrary to myth, vegetarians are not lacking in protein. Most meat eaters get far more than they need and most American vegetarians exceed their daily requirement as well. There are many professional athletes, including Ironman triathlon champions and Olympic gold medalists, who are vegetarian or vegan. Just saying...

Answer 3

Most vegetarians will eat eggs as long as they're the common kind you get that aren't fertilized.

I'm not telling you to become a vegetarian... eat what you want but your assumption that athletes can't be vegetarian is incorrect. There are olympic medal winners who are vegetarian and even bodybuilders who are vegetarian and vegan. Fine, eat meat because you like it but you can get plenty of protein on a veg diet.

Answer 4

What is your purpose of being a vegetarian?
Philosophy-Vegetarian? Than these quotes may help you...

Embyo meant to excel into a "shine" (life/baby). You and me are here now because our mum decided not to "destroy" us when she conceived us, right?

Notwithstanding it's human or animals, eggs and babies are very precious to the mother, eventhough it is a defenseless and weakest being. I feel God has the reason, thus only the "rightiest and truthful" person is able to understand the devinity.

In Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, "Ahimsa" meant "non-violence to any beings in any nature". Notwithstanding what faith/belief we have, but "man" indeed has the "power to love and care all beings & nature, and capacity to keep peace". In this context, we are in IMAGE of GOD.

“Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating, deprieving more that ten thousand lives. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.”
M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) 'Serve It Forth' (1937)

I've tried hard picking up these to inspire your philosophy...sister !

“In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain -- hunger.....
Mark Kurlansky, 'Choice Cuts' (2002)

"Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste." ....Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin (1804-1869) French historian.

"Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are."....Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) The Physiology of Taste (1825)

"First we eat, then we do everything else."....M. F. K. Fisher

"Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen."....Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."....Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian designer (1890-1973)

"It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all."....Catalan Proverb

Finally, if you paying for the egg industry, indirectly encouraging the cruel factory farming and beheading as well.

Answer 5

Most do. I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian so I do. Vegans don't eat any animal or animals by products, this includes things like eggs, honey, milk, etc. An ovo vegetarian will eat eggs but no milk, a lacto vegetarian will drink milk but no eggs, and an ovo-lacto vegetarian like myself will eat eggs and milk. I'm pretty sure I'm right.

Answer 6

I don't like eggs but some vegetarians eat them.

When I was a kid we used to get an egg every now and then that had what looked like blood in it. My mom would say, "Oh, that one must be fertile."
It kind of freaked me out and I never was too crazy about eggs after that.

Answer 7

Yes a vegetarian can eat unfertilized eggs but vegans cannot because they can't consume any animal by-products.

Answer 8

Eggs are not animal flesh.
Therefore vegetarians by definition do eat eggs.

You wouldn't love meat if you knew how much blood, pus, sh*t, and steroids is in it....

Answer 9

I like the quotes from king??cobra!!

Anyway, I was like you before, but gradually stopped eating egg and dairy products. In fact my family (my husband, me and two kids are vegan...my kids are vegan since born). We managed to improve the fitness and health, in fact saved those medical expenses and spending for charity purposes.

Stop eating egg and you will gain tremendous advantages.

Nowadays vegan cakes, ghee, chocolate bar and mayonnaise sold in market.

Answer 10

Yes vegetarians can eat eggs, so can the flex vegans.