Do you eat eggs?

Whether you eat eggs or not, if you dont eats meat, then your a vegetarian.

If you DO eat eggs, then you will have ' ovo ' infront of your vegetarian name.

If you DONT eat eggs, then you wont have ' ovo ' infront of your vegetarian name.

Lacto means dairy

Ovo means egg

Im a Lacto-ovo vegetarian because I eat dairy products and eggs, but no meat. actually I may be a Lacto-vegetarian cause I really dont eat egs very often. I eat them like every 3 weeks.

So if you dont eat eggs your either a lacto-vegetarian or Vegan.

I was a vegetarian for five months before becoming vegan.

I don't eat eggs because I simply don't feel the need to. I believe it's cruel to exploit the chicken's natural product so that I can have an egg. Even when the eggs are labelled 'free-range' or 'organic', the laws in place do not completely control how the chickens were kept. The eggs are a fundamental part of a chicken's life cycle, even though it is unfertilised.

Becoming an lacto-vegetarian will decrease your cholesterol intake considerably and you may lose weight (not saying you need to) and become healthier.

Plus, do you not think it's weird that eggs are a chicken's period.

I'm vegan so I don't eat eggs. Of course, I'd encourage anyone to be vegan because I think it's great... many vegetarians aren't aware that the egg and dairy industries are often as cruel as the meat industries. If you watch hidden camera footage from egg factory farms, you will be appalled. Those chickens have a life just as miserable, if not more miserable, than chickens used as meat.

I was vegetarian for almost 10 years, and eventually faced up to what I had wanted to do all along - become vegan. It is much easier to do than I thought! I've been happily vegan for a couple of years now, and will never go back to eating eggs and dairy. For those who can't bear to get rid of eggs and dairy, I encourage you whole-heartedly to find a local farmer, visit the farm to make sure that the animals are treated humanely ("free-range", etc. doesn't always ensure that the animals are treated well). Then buy your eggs and dairy from local farms... This is much healthier for your body and your conscience :)

No, I don't eat eggs (I'm a vegan.)

It isn't because I consider it eating meat (since most commercial eggs are unfertilized.) Eggs are a product of factory farming, which means that the chickens are kept in extremely small cages with very poor sanitation. Chicken farms also cut off the beaks of the birds when they're young to keep them from pecking each other (because they don't have enough space) and feed them lots of hormones. Even "free range" eggs probably aren't produced under very humane conditions, since it isn't hard for chicken farms to get that label. "Free range" is more of a marketing ploy surrounded by hype than an actual improvement.

I guess if I got to see the chickens and they were in a really good environment (like if they were pets or something) I might eat the eggs... but I wouldn't eat storebought eggs.

No, I'm vegan.

I don't eat eggs because of the inhumane conditions laying hens are raised in and because of the wholesale slaughter of male chicks. Laying hens in commercial operations are stuffed into small battery cages with half a dozen others; each has a space about the size of a sheet of notebook paper, not enough to stretch her wings. Each hen has her beak seared off with a hot knife to prevent her pecking her cage mates to death in response to the stress of such cramped conditions. Male chicks are of no value to a laying operation so they are killed as soon as they are sexed, either by grinding or suffocation. When a hen's production slows, she's deprived of food and light for several day in a process called forced moulting, which is meant to start a new laying cycle. In the end, though, her production value declines to the point that she's slaughtered for dog food and chicken nuggets. The terms "cage free" and "free range" are legally meaningless and do not mean the hens have any better quality of life. Then there's the crap (literally) that they're fed and the chemicals they're injected with, not to mention the foot and leg deformities from living a life standing on wire. The whole thing is pretty sick.

I don't have any particular ethical objection to someone keeping their own hens as companion animals, treating them well and making use of the eggs. But that's not reality for most people.

I personally eat eggs, but as with everything, it is your choice. I became a veg based on not eating red meat and then it evolved into no meat.

Many baked items have eggs in them and I have decided that eggs and cheese are OK for me. Maybe someday I will become Vegan, just not yet.

Okay an egg is nothing more than nutrients that feed the chicken and a small little housing for the sperm. There is not chicken in an unferterlized egg. They are as much alive as your menstral blood.(sorry that was gross but it is true) the whites and yellows in the egg feed the fetus. So you really are eating baby chicken feed lol

Yup. I used to be pure vegan, but went back to vegetarian when pregnant (only because I developed an adversion to tofu and soy products for the first trimester). I don't drink cows milk, but I enjoy eggs and a little bit of cheese. In fact, Friday night supper is usually an omlette!

Many vegetarians choose to eat eggs, because, of course, they are not meat.

I don't eat them because, in any egg producing company, chicks are sexed at a day or two of age, and the males are thrown into large garbage bags and left to suffocate.

Nah, I'm a vegan and don't see the need to eat eggs anymore, you can get the nutrients from them at other places, and in one egg is your guideline daily amount of cholesterol.

I loved them at one point, and you find them in loads of foods to.

You can substitute them in cooking with other ingredients

Instead of 1 egg, you can use...

1 tbsp gram (chick pea) or soya flour and 1 tbsp water

1 tbsp arrowroot, 1 tbsp soya flour and 2 tbsp water

2 tbsp flour, 1/2 tbsp shortening, 1/2 tsp baking powder and 2 tsp water

50g tofu blended with the liquid portion of the recipe

1/2 large banana, mashed

50 ml white sauce

I have no problems with other people eating eggs though.