Why Vegans Don't Eat Eggs - Vegetarian Diet Plans

Before becoming a vegetarian, you may be wondering exactly why vegans make vegetarian diet plans they make. And you may also be uncertain if you can adopt to these choices until you yourself value and accept them.

Eggs are advised to be included in vegetarian dishes for children in their vegetarian diet plans. They often do the same thing thing for pregnant women who are vegetarians. Because eggs are highly nutritious, they contain the same since they are the food supply for the embryonic chick. Eggs are an excellent source of protein, iron and phosphorous, yolk-rich source of Vitamin A, D and B (little or no C) that those children, pregnant women and all of us needed.

There are two major vegetarian points on eating eggs to help you make your decision.

Ovo-vegetarians, agree to the normal consumption of eggs because they do not believe that doing so conflicts with an ethical vegetarian diet. They do not categorize eggs as living things and so they do not see the connection between consuming eggs and causing animal suffering or death.

In addition to this, many ovo-vegetarians see complete veganism as limiting their options unreasonably, especially when eggs are an excellent source of protein and vitamins and a viable nutritional substitute to meat.

Many vegetarians who do consume eggs go for "free range" eggs over normal--or "battery"--eggs. This is more often than not out of ethical concern for the handling of egg-laying hens. Modern farming system is convincing people that it is unethical to eat eggs. The battery farms in which most of the eggs available on market shelves are produced causes harm and suffering to millions of hens. They are kept in confined conditions with no space to move and engage in natural behavior. Thus they peck one another and have to be de-beaked.

Vegans, by contrast, do not consume eggs usually and in general they oppose the institution altogether. In modern farming system animals are being forced to continually lay eggs until they are calcium -depleted and on the verge of death--at which point, they are killed.

Furthermore, vegans also disapprove to the idea of "free range" eggs, which do not require a hen to be caged. They argue that nearly all free range hens are actually packed into houses, where they have smallest access to the outside.

They also note that even producing "free range" eggs involves having fertile eggs--half of which will hatch into male chicks, which will then be slaughtered after birth or fed to a definite weight only to be culled.

In addition to these two positions, there are also vegetarians who don't eat eggs for other reasons. Some of these vegetarians don't consume eggs because they are health conscious; and others do not consume them because they think that the animal farming institution adds to environmental degradation.

You have all the rights to decide where you stand ethically and nutritionally, take some time to think and realize broadly what decision to make.

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