How come eggs are considered to be dairy products???

Question

Vegetarians can eat eggs, but aint eggs living cells that one day would become chicken? Is that eating meat then?

Answer 1

Quite simply because when fridges were invented, eggs did not 'belong' with meat, fruits or vegetables... so the only category left was: dairy.

This is why you find 'eggs' sometimes 'classified' in this way, even in the catering industry.

A 'vegetarian' that eats eggs is classified as an 'ovo lacto' vegetarian - that is, one that eats eggs, cheese and milk.

Eggs are indeed unfertilised eggs and many vegetarians find it abhorrent to eat them.

Most of us, however have been conditioned to eat them from birth, so it is up to one's conscience to decide whether to eat them or not.

Strictly speaking eating eggs is not eating meat, although many would argue the point you have made.

Answer 2

Eggs aren't really considered dairy. Some veggies eat egg but not dairy or vice versa, and some eat both. Eggs you buy in the store are not fertilized eggs and would never become a chicken.
Vegans don't eat eggs because of the awful treatment of egg laying hens in factory farms (battery cages, cutting off beak, eventually used for meat, etc)

To the person who thinks veal is unborn calf...I hope you were joking. Veal is a young calf (which has been born! sheesh) that is separated from its mother and usually confined to a small space to get a preferable texture of meat until it is slaughtered at a young age. One of the reasons vegans don't eat dairy is that the veal industry is closely linked in the dairy industry.

bre- the color of the egg doesn't matter if someone has decided not to eat egg, nor does it matter what part of the egg you eat (yolk or white) I don't eat eggs and I've never heard of vegan eggs (only egg substitute used in baking). The eggy stuff in the refrigerated section are still made from egg, but processed in a way to make it better for people with high cholesterol. If you actually no of a egg-like products (minus tofu scrambles) that does not contain egg, let me know.

Answer 3

eggs aren't considered to be a dairy product. Dairy by virtue of the name comes from a cow. However they are clumped together in the same category so I'll stop being neurotic about it. Although yes a egg if fertilized it would develop into a chicken that is the key point fertilized. The eggs sold in shops are unfertilized and are naturally produced by the chicken anyway so it is felt by many vegetarians that they are alright to eat. Those who are vegetarian for ethical reasons will however generally only buy or eat free range eggs due to the treatment of the hens in battery farms although there is also some controversy over the looseness of the classification of free range either. so ethically it is up to the individual to make the decision to support this industry or not.

Answer 4

Eggs are not dairy products, but neither are they a slaughter by-product. The eggs you buy in the grocery store are unfertilized and therefore have no chance ever of growing into a chicken. Vegetarians often label themselves with the prefixes lacto- (referring to dairy products) and ovo- (referring to eggs) to define what they will and won't eat. In some religious traditions, eggs are considered meat, but for those who are vegetarian for other-than-spiritual reasons it's a personal call whether to eat eggs or not.

Answer 5

I think it's because eggs are often sold in the "dairy section" of a grocery store.

I'm vegetarian and I don't eat eggs. Personally, I don't think eggs are "vegetarian" but the dictionary definition of the word indicates that some vegetarians eat eggs, so I see no reason to make an issue of it.

Eggs are ambiguous in a way because they only become a chicken if they are fertilized by a rooster.

However, if somebody says fish or chicken are vegetarian foods, I will argue with them endlessly.

Yes, Wacky Weed, if somebody ate an unborn calf it would be vile, and you may have taken something from a vial (not just weed). A medieval form of the violin was called the viol, but I don't think there is any such word as "viel."

Answer 6

Of course not. In an ideal location , a cow makes milk and humans can drink it. Not everything started in the 1950's. People have been milking cows for millions of years most likely, or whatever the cow evolution era is. Chickens lay eggs. SImpel as that. Not always have hens been forced into slavery and cows into extermination chambers. That's mostly modern and mostly what happens today. But not all. I do not eat anything acid from an animal's body, or honey or any of that crap.

Answer 7

no they aren't fertilized by a male. An egg from a chicken would be like a cow and it's milk.....it has living cells in both. Everything has something living in it no matter what you eat. Some ppl such as my self just don't like the meat because of how it is prepared...plus i don't have that guilt of Slater. Idk if this helps you...I am still trying to find time to study this a bit.... I am really interested in these topics and hope to be more help in the future....

Answer 8

Because of the way the cows painstakingly lay them. Can you imagine stopping at the store for a dozen eggs??

BTW--the eggs would never become chickens because they are unfertilized.

Answer 9

no, eggs are not usually fertile and therefore wil not have the oportunity to grow into and animal, think of an egg as a chicken's period. as for them being airy products, you seem to have got mixed up, eggs are not dairy products, dairy mean that something is made from milk, which eggs obviously arent, not to sure what you call eggs but vegans dont eat them.

Answer 10

Vegetarians don't eat white eggs sometimes brown or maybe im wrong cause i think Vege's eat fake eggs