Random question for vegans that popped into my head

Pretty sure an egg is a chickens period .

Enjoy.

source: Gary Yourofsky

Hell no. My parents have a couple of very happy hens in their backyard and we stopped eating the eggs my mum gave us once we decided to go vegan. As for dairy, it's plain old gross! Milk tastes awful, and "fresh cheese" is a blatant oxymoron.

I don't think I'll ever go back to eating dairy. I've never eaten a lot of it, and it's composed of the bodily excretions of an animal.  

Enough for me to never return, even though I will always miss the taste of a beautiful blue cheese.  

I love The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear Yeah, an unfertilised egg.

A period is a menstruation, the expulsion of the uterus lining. This only occurs in mammals. Ovulation is the release of eggs for fertilisation. Gary Yourofsky does fantastic work but from what I've seen, his message is to think for yourself and research the facts.
I'm not trying to be a *insert profanity here*, but as Vegans and Vegetarians I believe we must be held to a higher standard. Spouting out incorrect facts gives meat-eaters more ammunition to keep on doing what they do.

I was quoting his words. You can say a chicken egg is like 'a period'.
I didn't intend for it to be a 100% literal fact; hence the 'pretty sure'.

Also the higher standard thing, although I agree, perhaps best not to let others know veg*ns have 'higher standards'. Nothing worse than meat-eaters generalising us as being up-tight douchebags

My point isn't that vegans or vegetarians are better or worse than others but that if we want to live in a society where people are more compassionate to animals and are better informed about what the food is on their forks, we as vegans and vegetarians have to have our facts straight. I believe we have to be the ambassadors for this lifestyle.

Several years ago if you were to ask me my opinion on Vegans, I would of told you that they are a bunch of hippies and the natural course of life is humans eat meat. End of story, go off and eat a kebab, and why not? That is the story we are told since the day we are born from people we trust and admire. Excluding any spiritual reasons, adopting a plant based diet can be broken down into three rational arguments:

- Health
- Environment
- Morality

You and I may have made the switch for morality but the sad truth is that a lot of people don't really care if their lunch suffered before it died or even if it endured a lifetime of suffering. We all know these people. Through work, university, family. These people may deny the health and environmental argument also, but this comes back to us to being the ambassadors for a healthy lifestyle and a rational argument when asked "but why don't you eat meat?" or "where do you get your protein from?" or are shown straight out hostility. If we do present a calm, rational argument with solid facts however, it may positively effect some people's perspective.

I apologise for making a mountain out of a mole hill and for indulging in this rant, it is only because I am so passionate about this.

I admire your passion, don't apologise. I also 100% agree with you

I have backyard chooks, they live a good life. Soon we are giving them away to another friend who eats eggs. My mum and  I stopped eating them, and dad only eats a few while they are there. We didn't want to get used to eating them because we knew we wouldn't always have them. Also as stupid as it sounds I like the vegan label, and being completely vegan. I also think it can give the wrong impression that's it's ok to use an animal for it's fatty period

Also I feel healthier without animal products, and the health benefits alone are enough to make me want to stay vegan. ( though the ethical reasons mean a lot more to me)

Also no, I don't want to steal a babies milk so I can have it. If the mother had no calf because it died and I was taking care of it? Um no, I'm 16. I am waaay to old even at 16 to be sucking someone's boobies for milk :/ also again, I like being healthy, milk is not that healthy.

I would however give the milk to someone who drank milk until the cow stopped producing it.

If there is nothing suckling the milk dries up, much like humans. Thought you might like to know