Do vegetarians eat eggs?

Question

I know its not meat. But it was something that was going to grow into chicken. So is it in their standerds to eat scrambled eggs?

Answer 1

My definition of Vegetarian is Lacto Vegetarian

which means No Eggs! Yes, they are flesh foods which would definitely become chickens in the natural world.

So Scrambled Eggs is absolutely out of the question but Scrambled Tofu is easy and totally acceptable alternative. In fact in my restaurant on our Sunday Morning Brunch Buffet for years we served Scrambled Tofu which was clearly marked as such and people still complemented us on our Scrambled Eggs! Go figure.

Here's how:

Tofu Rancheros (Vegan)

Great for Breakfast, Brunch or Sunday Night Supper

1 Package Firm Tofu

2 Tbs. Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 tsp. Chopped Fresh Garlic

1 Cup sliced Button Mushrooms

1 small Onion sliced stem to stern

1/4 Cup each Red, Green and Yellow Peppers cut into chunks

1 handful Grape Tomatoes

1 Tbs. Turmeric

1 tsp. Chili Powder

Salt and Pepper to taste

Splash Shoyu

Five grains Black Salt* (optional)

*Black Salt is available at Indian Grocery Stores. It has a high Sulfa content so you will need to use only as much as fits on the tip of a sharp knife. It is the Sulfa content that pulls the tofu into the familiar smell and taste of ‘egg’.

In a frying pan sauté 1 Cup sliced button mushrooms with freshly chopped garlic in Extra Virgin Olive Oil until golden. Remove from the pan and reserve. Next add to the pan 1 small onion sliced thinly from stem to stern, and half each of red, yellow and green peppers cut into small chunks. Sauté until the peppers are soft and the onion has becomes transparent. Add a handful of whole grape tomatoes. Stir.

Add 1 Tbs. Turmeric and 1 Tsp Chili Powder, and crumble in 1 package Firm Tofu. Mix through the spice and vegetables until the tofu is heated through and well colored, and the tomatoes begin to pop. Add the Mushrooms, a splash of Shoyu and salt and pepper to taste. Plate and serve with toast, or muffins.

For Plain Scrambled Tofu just omit all the veggies!

What could be simpler? Turmeric and Canola Oil and Tofu! Sea Salt and pepper to taste! For a real 'eggy' quality add those few grains of Black Salt.  

And for other amazingly delicious tofu and other  recipes visit

http://www.your-vegetarian-kitchen.com/h...

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

The eggs you get in the supermarket have never been fertilized therefore would never have grown into anything.

Answer 4

When you say 'vegetarian', it refers to the people who does NOT eat any slaughter house product (that includes eggs because it was supposed to develop into a chicken but was stopped because it ended up in other people's plate).

There are other types of vegetarians though. The Lacto Ovum (I think) are the ones who does not eat meat but eats eggs and takes dairy. While the Lacto Vegetarian does not take eggs.

Answer 5

no

Answer 6

some do, some don't.....there are different types of vegetarians.

ovo-lacto vegetarians: eat eggs, drink dairy, don't eat meat

lacto vegetarians: drink dairy, don't eat eggs or meat

vegans: don't eat any animal product, including honey, eggs, milk, etc. etc.

Answer 7

this one does, which I guess if we were going to put an "offical title" on me, I would be an ovo-vegetarian.

Answer 8

Most vegetarians will eat eggs...it's Vegans that do not eat ANYTHING that comes from an animal.

vegan: a vegetarian who only consumes plant-based foods (and no foods of animal origin such as eggs and dairy products).

However.....

ovo-vegetarian: a vegetarian who also eats eggs.

AND....

lacto-vegetarian: a vegetarian who also consumes dairy products.

lacto-ovo-vegetarian: a vegetarian who also consumes eggs and dairy products.

Hmmm....a bit confusing right?  Makes me nuts.  Back in the day it was simply put...what the heck has happened.

Simply put was this....

Vegetarians:  consumes veggies, eggs, dairy products and fish...NO warm blooded meat such as beef, chicken, pork etc...

Vegans: Did not consume fish, any warm blooded animal meat or any dairy that comes from any animal.

People are complicating this simple concept wayyyy toooo much.

Answer 9

im a vegan so i dnt eat eggs and i saw someones answer to ur question  say the u should eat eggs for protin because of the no meat thing but u can get the same amount of protine by eating peanutbutter on whole wheat toast =]

i suppose vegitatians can eat eggs but its kinda discusting.... i got u some info u can check out goveg.com peta or peta2.com 4 more info....

Each year, something hideous happens in the egg industry. Factory farmers intentionally starve millions of hens for up to eight weeks. This is the birds’ story.

Catch This!

The natural lifespan of a chicken is 15 to 20 years. “Broilers” are slaughtered when they are just 7 weeks old, and “layers” at 1 to 2 years.

The lives of today’s hens are miserable enough to begin with: Hens used for their eggs are squeezed with up to five others into an indoor, wire cage with floor space the size of a folded newspaper! Born to flap their wings and walk around, these chickens are barely able to move; most can never even sit comfortably. To stop them from pecking at each other out of desperation, workers slice off the chicks’ beaks with a hot blade, sometimes accidentally removing part of the birds’ tongues or faces as well. But when egg production drops, at least 75 percent of the 260 million laying hens in North America endure another bizarre torment: Producers attempt to force one last laying cycle out of the exhausted spent hens before sending them to slaughter. They do it by cruelly and unnaturally forcing the hens into a “molt.” In nature, hens replace old feathers with new ones every single year and spend about four months dropping old feathers and growing new ones. During molting season, hens don’t produce eggs—an interruption factory farmers find unacceptably unprofitable.

As only females produce eggs, 280 million male chicks per year are shoved into plastic bags and left to suffocate or be crushed to death.  

Forced molting throws hens’ systems into collapse, stressing and shocking them into losing their feathers quickly and forcing their worn-out bodies into a new laying cycle.

To trick the hens into laying more eggs, they are deprived of food and water for two weeks or more. Our researchers uncovered hundreds of thousands of hens slowly and painfully starving to death as a result of this trauma. Typically, birds who survive grow weak, shed all their feathers and lose up to 35 percent of their body weight. Scottish researcher Dr. Peter Dun says food deprivation can last “until their combs turn blue” from lack of nutrition. To shock the birds’ systems further, they are kept in total darkness for weeks on end.

“To the egg producer, a major advantage of induced molting is the reduction in time that the house is not producing income. Because flocks are replaced less frequently, the laying house will be empty less often, which can help smooth out the egg producer’s cash flow.”

—from the Poultry Science and Technology Guide (Extension Poultry Science, North Carolina State University).

As the days of torture go on, many birds—worth only pennies each to the factory farmer—die. The scared, confused survivors’ crowded cages fill with rotting corpses and manure-covered feathers. The starving hens peck frantically at their empty feed trays, and many resort to eating feathers. Forced molting also weakens hens’ bones, resulting in fragile and broken limbs.

When egg production finally becomes too low to be profitable, the weary hens are sent to slaughter. Because a lifetime of abuse has left them with injuries like broken bones, oozing abscesses and internal hemorrhaging, they are used in foods that hide the true state of their battered and bruised flesh, like chicken soup and companion animal food.

The Incredible Inedible Egg

Egg yolks contain a whopping 213 mg of cholesterol each; serving up just one egg for breakfast each morning can raise your cholesterol level by as much as 10 points! In fact, women who eat eggs daily triple their risk of breast cancer. Eggs also cause food poisoning and contribute to obesity, heart disease and other serious health problems.  

Forced molting is so cruel that in 1987, it was banned in Great Britain, and most European countries do not allow food deprivation for more than 24 hours. Yet, in North America, no laws protect these poor birds, and as you read this, more than 6 million hens are being force-molted.

•Stop eating eggs, and educate others! Contact PETA for free eggless recipes.

•If recipes call for eggs, substitute tofu, commercial egg replacer, arrowroot or bananas.

Answer 10

there are alot of vegetarians who eat eggs and drink dairy products. it's the vegans who don't eat any of that. if it came from an animal or had a head they won't eat it.

Answer 11

There seems to be a lot of confusion as to whether eggs are or are not vegetarian.

But i think they are not and it would be ok to eat them :)

Answer 12

It wasn't going to grow into a chicken because the eggs you buy at stores are not fertilized. Chickens will lay eggs even if there is no rooster around. If no one eats them, they go in the trash.

Answer 13

Sure, even vegan eat meat sometimes!

Answer 14

some do some dont. i dont because hello an egg was a chicken or could of been. i dont eat at restaurants unless i knwo there will not be any in my foods, i do all my own baking never buy, same with my bread ect. i use egg substitues, i make vegan butter and i use milk substitutes

Answer 15

Some vegitarians do eat eggs, but alot of them wont.

If you're a serious vegetarian you wont, but you're suppose to because of all the protein in them and since your not getting the protein from the meat, you should be eating eggs at least once a week.

Answer 16

some do but certainly not vegans vegetarians certainly dont eat the scotch eggs as they contain sausage meat but some think only eating meats wrong and not eating eggs.

Answer 17

vegetarians do but vegans dont .

:)