Whats wrong with eggs and milk? Eating dairy products and eggs is not the same as eating animals, is it?
Vegetarians do not eat animals, but, according to the traditional use of the term, they may choose to consume dairy products and eggs, in which case they are called lacto-ovo (milk and egg) vegetarians. These distinctions are essentially academic, as the production of eggs and dairy products involves enormous killing as does the production of meat. Surplus cockerels, unwanted calves, “spent” dairy cows and laying fowl have been slaughtered, bludgeoned, trashed, drowned and ditched through the ages. Disposing of the “surplus” males by the dairy industry is the basis of the veal calf industry. The egg industry trashes half the population of birds born–more than 25O million male chicks–every year. In fact, dairy products and eggs are every bit as much animal parts as “meat” (muscle tissue) is. No less than muscles, these parts derive from and comprise within themselves the physiological, metabolic, and hormonal activities of an animal’s body, and a magnitude of bodily expense. A hen’s e
