eggs?

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> Please explain to me why devotees do not eat

> eggs. I always assumed eggs were the fetus of a chicken, now I learn eggs

> are sterile until fertilized. It seems to me that a life is not being

> taken by eating an egg, but one is simply consuming a by product of the

> chicken. Friends and family members ask me these questions, and I feel

> like a crazy religious fanatic with no answer. I beg you to please

> enlighten me on the subject matter.

 

Eggs are meant to become chickens. They are the embryo of a chicken.

Eating animal or bird embryos is something almost barbaric isn't it? It is

definitely a tamasic foodstuff. In any case in Krishna consciousness we

only eat food offered to Lord Sri Krishna and since it isn't vegetarian it

isn't offerable. Of course, for karmi's it will have less karma to eat an

egg then something where violence and killing an animal is involved. Like

that Srila Prabhupada said if someone wants to eat meat then why not eat the

meat after an animal dies naturally? In that case there is no bad karma for

eating it. However, it isn't good for spiritual advancement and it isn't

prasadam. it is still a tamasic foodstuff, but it doesn't have the karma of

killing the animal.

 

I hope that this finds you in good health.

 

Your well wisher,

 

Jayapataka Swami