[Tserisa]

I'm a vegan, and my carnivorous pets are on high-meat carnivore diets.

I think that being an advocate for animal rights and an advocate of the best possible care for animals means giving our pets the most healthy and complete diets possible, along with other exceptional care. There's been a great deal of discussion about this on the board already, and I have no idea why the OP chose to phrase it this way or bring it up. It seems to me to be extremely passive-aggressive, and makes the assumption that any and all vegetarians are feeding their carnivorous pets plant-based diets.

I believe if a person does not feel morally comfortable feeding a carnivorous pet an appropriate meat-based diet, there are plenty of obligate herbivore pets like guinea pigs, rabbits, iguanas and sheep out there needing homes.

Carnivorous animals deserve to be given a species-appropriate diet, just like people on here wouldn't dream of suggesting we feed guinea pigs dairy and processed grains or meat.

However, people are rather misinformed about eggs. They are not like a chicken's natural period at all, though they are not meat or fertilized without a rooster around. I'm not sure this is the thread to go into it, but birds do not naturally lay egg after egg, having cycles like humans. Laying a bunch of unfertilized eggs is something humans have <B>made</b> chickens do, and it is quite bad for the bird. Irrelevant to Western vegetarianism (more on Eastern later), but I do think people should be informed, and the "chicken period" thing is biologically inaccurate.

However, it is certainly NOT an animal. It is no more an animal than a human egg is. Humans do shed eggs every month, but even the most adamant pro-lifer would not claim that an egg is a life, or a human, or that letting that egg get disposed of is a crime or murder. No one says "That egg could grow into a beautiful human, how dare you flush it down the toilet!" The suggestion is frankly ridiculous.

You can get fertilized eggs to eat. Some people prefer the taste. That would be a different matter. However, they are not common and certainly wouldn't be used in pet food.

(In Eastern culture, vegetarian is closely associated with religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, and it typically means "lacto-vegetarian" -- dairy but no eggs. This is because the egg is considered to have the *potential* of life, rather than the nourishing of life, such as dairy. Now, if the original poster had posted respectfully and from a spiritual point of view such as this it would be a different matter, but as the OP does not have views that limit life-taking on such a basis anyway, the comment is rather hypocritical and hostile.)