Im not a vegan, but i have a question?

Question

im not a vegan or a vegetarian... and i dont plan on becoming one. my best friend is a vegan tho and i do respect her choice to be one. when im hanging out with her i even try to eat as vegan as possible.

so please no one take offense to my question:

when chickens lay eggs to be used as food for us, they are not fertilized. so there is no baby chick in the egg that we're killing. so why is it so horrible to eat eggs?

Answer 1

Its because the chicken who layed that egg was cooped up with hundreds and thousands of other chickens and was tortured and we vegans don't believe thats right so we don't even want the eggs that came from that poor chicken who had to die for no reason what so ever! Plus eggs are an animals product and we refraim from eating things produced by animals!

Answer 2

Because chickens DON'T lay eggs to be used as food for us.  Chickens lay eggs because chickens lay eggs.  They were not put here to serve our wants.

The chickens who lay eggs for the majority of commercial egg operations live short, tortured, brutal lives and then are slaughtered for nuggets without even the benefit of a humane slaughter law.  They live crammed into cages, being defecated on from the hundreds of chickens stacked aboove them, they have their beaks cut off with hot knives so that they cannot take their stress out on the half dozen other chickens they share a cage with, and even so-called free range hens will likely never see the light of day.  Male chicks are killed as soon as they are sexed, millions upon millions of them every year, either by being ground alive or by being suffocated in trash bags.  It's a sick, cruel industry that produces a sick, unhealthy "food."

Answer 3

That's a good question. It's true that the eggs aren't fertilized so there's no chance of them turning into chicks.

The problem vegans have with eggs is the way egg-laying hens are commonly treated on factory farms. They're crammed into barren wire cages so small that they can't even flap their wings. A portion of their beaks is sliced off (with no painkillers) so that the birds won't peck each other to death in crowded conditions. About 98% of egg-laying hens in the U.S. are denied everything that is natural or pleasurable to them. Also, male chicks are useless to the egg industry since they can't produce eggs. Farmers commonly throw the male chicks into high-speed grinders while the birds are still conscious, or suffocate them in trash bags.

More info:

http://www.chooseveg.com/eggs.asp

Answer 4

www.meat.org<==It will show you why!

The real cruelty of egg production lies in the treatment of the “laying” hens, who are perhaps the most abused of all factory-farmed animals. Each egg from a factory farm represents about 34 hours of misery and came from a hen who was packed into a cage the size of a filing-cabinet drawer with as many as five other chickens. At factory farms, cages are stacked many tiers high, and f***s from the top rows fall onto the chickens below. Hens become lame and develop osteoporosis because they are forced to remain immobile and because they lose a great deal of calcium when they repeatedly produce egg shells. Some birds’ feet grow around the wire cage floors, and they starve to death because they are unable to reach the food trough. At just 2 years of age, most hens are “spent” and are sent to the slaughterhouse. Egg hatcheries don’t have any use for male chicks, so they are suffocated, decapitated, crushed, or ground up alive.

Answer 5

because they come from chickens.

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Answer 6

well, that's the difference between vegan and vegetarian.  Vegans don't eat chicken, fish, eggs, or dairy products.  No flesh.  If it comes from an animal, it's not vegan.  Besides, eggs have lots of cholesterol.

Answer 7

the better treated chicken is allowed to get out and roam in the farmyard. and also is not given antibotics unless needed and then is seperated out of the flock until the need gos away. so far as far as I know egglands eggs are the best for range roaming but that is all I know about the topic myself.

Answer 8

No offense taken.

As the others have pointed out, it's the way the hens are treated and the fact that baby male layer chicks are killed as soon as they hatch.

And of course, as soon as a hen's production declines, she, too, is killed.  Her battered body will be used for chicken nuggets, low quality pot pies, or chicken stock.

Check out www.eggindustry.com.

Answer 9

They are bad because they are an animal product. Not good for your body. Forget the whole humane treatment thing, just for this conversation, animal products are bad for human beings. We are best suited to eat a diet of all Raw Fresh Fruit and Veggies. Anything else is stepping down from health!!!!