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I have pet chickens - live, if they lay eggs - no rooster, can a vegan eat the egg?

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I am pretty much a vegetarian, but just have some troubling questions about some things I don't understand.

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  1. No animal is being hurt to get your eggs so EAT them!  Who cares what anyone says, yeah technically you wouldn't be a vegan but so what!  Just don't confuse people by calling yourself a vegan who eats eggs:)


  2. No. if you are only a vegetarian, then yes you can eat these eggs. As you don't have a rooster, these are unfertilised eggs and don't have any life in them, o these are suitable for vegetarians. but, vegans don't eat any animal products, not even milk, cheese, honey, etc so no eggs too - even if they are unfertilised

  3. No.

  4. A vegan would not eat the egg.  However, the scenario you described is less ethically troubling than someone who eats eggs from battery cage hens.

  5. No. Vegans don't eat eggs.

    Personally I feel we have no right to take things from animals. That's just my opinion though, you eat whatever you want.

  6. No. Vegans don't use ANY animal products that can be avoided.

  7. Eat what you want and don't worry about labels.

    However, if you want a diet that causes no harm to living animals, then you can still eat the eggs.

    EDIT: Mockingbird, you mean your own CHICKENS' eggs. :)

  8. No, because vegans don't eat eggs regardless of the source.  However, I think most of us would recognize that eggs laid by treasured companion hens who are never going to be slaughtered are far preferable to any commercial eggs.  In my mind there's nothing wrong with being an ovo-vegetarian who only eats your own eggs.  Vegan is just a label.

  9. most eggs are unfertilized. that is why a lot of ovo-vegetarians feel it is kinder to eat eggs than drink milk. you can eat the eggs. you are not killing anything.

  10. No, but a vegetarian should feel safe in doing so. My only objection to eggs is the treatment of the hens in the big chicken farms. I'm a vegetarian, and only buy free-range eggs.

    Being vegan means absolutely NO animal by-products--not even honey. So eggs of any kind are out of the question.

  11. I would say yeh, why not.. You aren't killing anything and the Chicken isn't hurt by it.. They lay eggs naturally whether your going to eat them or not..

  12. I would say that no, a vegan would not eat the egg. It depends on their reasons for veganism, though. If they object to the conditions on battery farms but otherwise don't mind eggs, they might. (It's a lot easier to just say, "I'm vegan" than "I only eat organic, local, free-range chickens. How were your chickens treated? Where were they grown? Did they have antibiotics or hormones? I'm not sure if I can eat them."

    Ask the vegan.

  13. You wrote "I have pet chickens".

    Right there is the problem for any Vegan (someone who rejects the instrumental view of other animals - i.e. that other animals are "things", human property, means to our ends.)

    This is not a question of "how" the slaves are treated but "why" they are being held as slaves (property).

    As a Vegan, I see all sentient animals (humans included) as beings with interests, as ends themselves.

    However, when somebody is treated and/or regarded as property, she is viewed as "something" that has no interests whatsoever or that any interest she might have can be traded away for virtually any reason that the property owner might consider beneficial for him, however trivial.

    In this case, you're treating those hens as nothing but "food providers", and you can  (due to their property status) do whatever you might want with them. Sure, you can treat them "nicely", but you can also sell them, debeak them, put them into a tiny cage, or kill them. And it's all your choice as their "owner".

    That's precisely why human slavery was abolished. It wasn't because ALL slave masters tortured their slaves, but because, as a slave, you have absolutely no right, and your fate is dependent on your master's wishes.

    Now, abolitionist Sanctuaries rescue hens. They reject the property status of them and all animals, but still live with the rescued hens. They lay eggs. What do they do?

    Most hens eat their own unfertilized eggs after a while, so their menstrual excretions (eggs) are not "wasted" in any way.

    Being Vegan is the embodiment, on a personal level, of the abolition of other animals' slavery and the rejection of the notion that their bodies or bodily secretions are "food". Therefore, eating animal products entrench the belief that they are "food", thus promoting the very state of mind that we want to get rid of, in the first place.

    For all these reasons, eating animal products, however they are "produced", does not have a moral justification.

    And finally, why would we eat a cholesterol bomb anyway?

    =)

    Some links that might be of interest:

    http://www.abolitionistapproach.com

    http://www.peacefulprairie.org

    P.D.: Nicole D, please check the Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary  website I provided and/or read about the faces of free-range and the "free-range myth" in the link I wrote below. Even in "treatment" there is hardly a difference between battery cages and "free-range".

    http://www.peacefulprairie.org/freerange...

  14. Vegans are pretty hard core.  Some will even avoid eating food that has been grown using cow manure or bonemeal for fertilizer.  Eating eggs at all would be a no brainer.

    Whether Vegans should keep pets is another issue.  If it's not ok to keep a pet chicken, then keeping a pet cat or dog should not be ok either. If all animals are sentiant beings, then none should be property.

  15. No, we don't eat eggs at all, under any circumstances.

    If you eat them, you're not vegan.

  16. nope.

    yummy yummy, chicken period!

  17. I think it  is ok  but not if  the hen  is distressed  by  you stelling her eggs.

  18. I would say yes!! The egg is a good source of protein and you are not hurting or killing anything by eating the egg.

    Seeing as you don't have a rooster you don't intend to breed any chickens so you are not destroying life by eating the eggs. They are not fertilised.

    This side of things is cleared up. This is one of the biggest issues with a lot vegans that I know. They don't like to eat chicken, fish and animal products because they are living creatures. But the egg has not become a living creature so it is OK in my mind to eat it before it is fertilised and becomes a living creature.

    I would go ahead and eat your chickens' eggs with a clear conscience.

    Bon Appetite!!!

  19. No, a vegan person would give them away so that someone else wouldn't have to buy factory-farmed eggs.

  20. Sure, you can eat the eggs.  Just don't call yourself vegan.

  21. the point of being vegan is not to eat eggs.

    and what really annoys vegans is when people think up stupid scenarios where they would HAVE to eat meat etc

    like "say you were starving in the desert and all you had was a bacon sandwich, you would right?"

    so don't do it.

  22. i think you could seeeing as they just leave them on the ground. its not as if you squeeze it out the chicken or treat them like they are from "chicken run"

  23. Nope.  Vegans do not eat animal products.  No matter what scenario you give, the answer is still no.

  24. no you can't becouse it's still egg
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