Egg is a controversial breed of food. They have been dissed by the vegetarian population and hailed by the non-vegetarian one. But the age-old question of whether eggs are vegetarian or not still prevails. What does science have to say about, let’s find out.
FERTILIZED AND UNFERTILIZED EGGS: While most mistake eggs for being the original home for chicks, there is a huge difference between the hens that lay eggs for consumption and eggs in which chicks are born. There are two types of eggs which are available to us: Fertilized and unfertilized.
NOT KILLING A LIFE: Much to contrary belief, neither fertilized nor unfertilized eggs contain chicks that are meant to be born. To make a chick, a hen has to mate with a rooster. Farms which breed hens for edible eggs keep roosters away from them so that this fertilization process is not completed. For a chick to be formed inside an egg, the fertilized egg needs to develop into an embryo. This can only happen under specific conditions. Therefore, either way, you are safe. You are not hindering the natural process of life.
VEGETARIANISM AND NON-VEGETARIANISM: Now that we have established that the eggs we eat were not meant to be chicks, let us also differentiate between the basic concept of vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism. Going by the popular logic, vegetarianism includes not eating the flesh of an animal while non-vegetarianism does.
OVO-VEGETARIANS: Since the egg was never going to turn into a chick, it is safe to say that eggs can be considered vegetarian since there is no flesh of any kind involved. And vegetarians who consume eggs are known as ovo-vegetarians.
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