Guest guest Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 it's like you are aborting a life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 i hear that semolina is a good substitute for egg. is this true?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 yes, semolina is used in pasta and other foods and helps the food stick together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/faqingredients.htm#E this is a great site on veggie products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 Haribol, The UK problem is that you can't even trust things that are called 'suitable for vegetarian' because they may contain egg. In the UK, vegetarian is considered to include eating of egg. Vegetarian is eating of everything but meat. Vegan is eating of everything but meat, egg and dairy. Shockingly, there is no nutrition-labelling on foods that specify pure vegetarian foods i.e. food without meat and egg, but with dairy. This is especially annoying for vegetarian Hindus and those practicing Vedic religion, since the Vedic defintion of vegetarian is no meat, no egg but yes to dairy. Maybe in UK we should petition for more accurate labelling of foods. Any thoughts? Your Servant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 i still don't get why people say egg is vegetarian. it makes no sense to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 the reason westerners consider egg to be vegetarian is because they don't consider the egg to be a life. therefore there is no killing involved in the eating of egg (according to them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 i've always looked at it as aborting a life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 ...and we all know how westerners don't really regard abortion as murder... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 thats a very good point actually regarding abortion and murder. at the end of the day an egg would produce a chick which is a life, so effectively that life is being destroyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 Hare Krishna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I offer my humble obeisances unto him! Very interestingly, I had a similar conversation with an American friend of mine. He claims eggs from chickens are not fertilized eggs. That is, the chicken does not mate with the rooster and fertilize these eggs. These eggs are artificially induced and hence there is no life in the egg. Well, I argued against it but he still stands his ground saying eggs do not have life because they are unferitlized. Any comments???? Haribol! anand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 yeah, but are we still not stopping the full process of the egg hatching and a chick emerging from it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 Hare Krishna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I offer my humble obeisances unto him! "yeah, but are we still not stopping the full process of the egg hatching and a chick emerging from it?" Well....thats the funny part of the argument....there will be no chick coming out as it is not fertilized in the first place. In other words, there is no life in the egg. The yolk is just proteins and no life per se. Haribol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 if that be so, then why is it considered killing a life if it has not been fertilized yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_yasodanandana Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 the main reason because devotees do not eat eggs is that they are not accepted by krsna as offering they are dirty, coming from a dirty place.. add this to the fact that they are actually abortions or menstruations and we'll understand why they are not to offer to krsna who accepts lacto-vegetarian foods.. and a devotee eats only foods offerend to krsna, in this way he, instead of loading himself with the karma of killing plants and animals, makes spiritual advancement if one read bhagavad gita, bhagavatam, chaitanya charitamita and the words of gaudya spiritual masters, understand very easily wich kinds of food are accepted by krsna and he acts consequently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 Haribol, the actual point of vedic vegetarianism is not to eat flesh. The egg is still considered to be flesh of an animal. Killing the life is irrelevant. Hare Krishna, Your Servant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_yasodanandana Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 "the actual point of vedic vegetarianism is not to eat flesh. " the main problem of eating flesh, is that there's to kill to have it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Haribol, Of course, we should not kill animals. However, the reason for vegetarianism is actually because animal flesh is polluting to human consciousness. Therefore even if somebody argues that egg is not a life, it is still flesh, which is polluting to the human body, mind and consciousness. Hare Krishna, Your Servant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 can someone explain egg white, free range egg, egg yolk etc. please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 egg white is the protein of the egg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Of course, we should not kill animals. However, the reason for vegetarianism is actually because animal flesh is polluting to human consciousness. right.. the karma of having killed an animal pollutes human consciousness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 i would like to point out that many shops have E471 in products that say "suitable for vegetarians". this is wrong as E471 is an animal extract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 All i know is Meat-Eating is only for survival. When there is no fruits or Grains to eat, A man can kill and eat meat to ensure his own survival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 "When there is no fruits or Grains to eat" yes.. where one is lost in the desert he eats lizards and scorpions... but karma does not stop to work... if one kills, he has to be killed in future, if he's lost in the desert, he's gone there for some sense gratification or the airplane has fallen while he was going to gratificate so karma is still there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 According to dieticians and from health professionals generally, eggs are recognised as a good source of nutrition, particulary in a vegetarian diet. I acknowledge the wrongness of eating a living egg. But what about if you know that the egg is unfertilised? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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