Do eggs count as meat?

[DazBurger]

WAIT WAIT WAIT!? So... Vegetarians dont swallow?

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Nope. It's not muscle. Meat is muscle.

 

[TimeLord]

Eggs are 'Dairy' products aren't they?

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Meat is animal flesh that is used as food. Most often, this means the skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also describe other edible tissues such as organs, livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, or lungs. Taken straight from Wikipedia. So no eggs are not meat but are a bi-product of animals. Thus vegetarians can eat eggs but not vegans.

 

[DarkRyter]

Meat is muscle, eggs are not muscle. Therefore eggs are not meat.

He's actually pretty right. Very little of the egg, most of the time none of the egg, is the actual baby chicken since they're usually unfertilized.

 

[rokkolpo]

It's not really meat, but it's the equivelent of eating sperm.

more like the equivelent of a female egg.
unless it fertilised, which makes it the equivelent of a developing fetus? (or however you spell that in english)

 

[Dirty Saint]

Generally speaking, eggs are not actual meat.
They are in the meat group of the pyramid, though. Along with peanuts.

 

[ninjapenguin981]

Eggs are unfertilised therefore there is no potential for life. It's basically like eating period from a chicken.

 

[Plurralbles]

It's not really meat, but it's the equivelent of eating sperm.

"egg" not sperm. Duh.

Anyway, no.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

The type of eggs one buys at the grocery market are not unborn fetuses, but rather unfertilized eggs. To be honest, this may sound gross, but the kind of eggs we eat are actually results of chicken periods. If you're a vegan, then you would count eggs as meat, but if you're a vegetarian or meat-eater, then you don't.

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

The eggs that we eat aren't fertilised since the hens aren't kept with roosters, so no, they're not meat, given time they couldn't even grow to be meat.

 

[papalia85]

Eggs are essentially unborn whatever animal that laid them right? Could that count as meat, or is it classified as another type of food.

I don't think they are meat , but they sure aren't just some food . I can't say exactly what they are tough i enjoy eating them .

 

[T-Bone24]

The average chicken egg is unfertilized, so it's pretty much just proteinous goop. It's not the "unborn" animal. It's not yet an animal, as it's yet to be fertilised by another bird.

 

[Tiny116]

meat is defined as the flesh of animals used as food so is a egg the flesh of an animal that you are using as food yup it most defiantly is

I don't think Egg white and yolk is flesh, seeing as it is unfertilised. However according to wikipedia the USDA has classified Eggs as meat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)

 

[RelexCryo]

Eggs are a form of meat for which no animals die to produce. Of course, animals are still "enslaved," so vegans are still opposed to it naturally.

I'm surpised that Vegans don't consider raising vegatables to be a form of enslaving animals. All those poor earthworms are struggling to help you produce those crops.

 

[VeX1le]

Did someone just visit the "Are fish meat?" thread? I think they did!

OT: No. End of thread.

I actually was wondering and by coincidence he posted the same thing.

 

[Omikron009]

I'm pretty sure that what we call meat is actually muscle tissue, so no, eggs aren't meat. Also, at least with chicken eggs, none of the ones we eat actually contain unborn chickens, because hens are capable of laying eggs without having them fertilized first, they'll just never hatch.

 

[Private Custard]

What's with all the moronic questions with staggeringly simple answers today??

Fish = meat

Egg = Not meat

What thread comes next? Are asparagus heads meat since the word 'head' is included? Maybe potatos are meat, 'cos they have eyes!

 

[manaman]

It's not really meat, but it's the equivelent of eating sperm.

Really? You know sperm comes from males right? The egg comes from females, and this is the internet you really should know this stuff already.