On Thu, 17 May 2018 03:32:54 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 8:16:17 PM UTC-4, wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 May 2018 16:42:49 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Just so happens my dinner tonight will be kinda-sorta vegetarian.
>>>That's if you define the label as someone who eats eggs & cheese.
>>
>> If you claim to be Vegan for morality reasons,
>> it makes NO sense to eliminate milk products and eggs,
>> as those are similar to fruits and vegetables,
>> where you eat the 'seeds' of the plant, which are renewable.
>
> Vegetarian: doesn't eat anything that kills an animal
> Vegan: doesn't eat anything that inconveniences an animal

Which brings up a question: If chickens were wild, what would happen
to their almost daily, unfertilized eggs? Would they just kick them
to the side? Or would roosters make sure that they were fertilized
every day, keeping the hens in a constant state of childbirth?

And what would happen to a cow, that for whatever reason, had no
calves to milk her swollen mammary glands? (and doesn't live in
Greenville, New York)?

The chicken are not inconvenienced laying an egg every day,
fertilized or not. And the cow would probably feel much better if
she were milked.

-sw