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Originally posted by Fugee
ThrasherFan, curious why no eggs, milk or seafood.
A vegetarian friend took the stance that she wouldn't eat anything that was sentient. After much research, she and her SO concluded that shrimp are not sentient.
But chickens are going to lay eggs no matter if you take them or not. And there are farms with free range chickens. I get eggs from one here in Minn. where the chickens live better than I do (or close).
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Great, now I gotta go and look up "sentient." I simply have never had seafood I think this is because I don't like the smell -- now don't go telling me that "really good seafood doesn't smell" because it all does to me, from the can of tuna to lobster and all points in between it smells. The other thing is that seafood tends to look like what it is on the plate and that just "bothers" me.
I don't like milk and never have. As I grew older I got into the "we are the only species that drinks the milk of another" thing. Now, I just don't drink it. Cowsmilk should be drunk by baby cows.
Eggs. There is a stringy umbilical cord in there --- ewwww. I know people who have cracked open eggs to find little embryos or blood. Nope, just never interested in eggs. As a child I apparently would eat the white part but only if it was not cooked with the yolk, and it had to be burned with lots of pepper. Yes chickens will lay eggs anyway, but not in the quantity that they are forced to do so for commerical purposes. A normal laying hen lives at most one year. Free range is fine, I just to don't eat eggs.
To each his own. For the record, my husband is a strict carnivore -- potatoes and corn are the only vegetables I can get him to eat.
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