And I'm Colleen Patrick Gudreau from Compassionate Cooks. I founded Compassion in order to help empower people to make

informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism. There are a lot

of questions about vegetarianism. There are a lot of questions about vegetarianism and

animal rights and a lot of misinformation out there. You can learn more about who we

are and what we do by visiting our website Compassionate cooks.com. Right now let's talk about eggs

one question a lot of people ask once they start thinking about animal products is

what's wrong with eating eggs if the animal isn't killed?

It's a good question. The short answer is the animals are

killed for this product ultimately, but the longer answer is a bit more involved and it's an answer

the egg industry certainly doesn't want revealed.

It spends millions of dollars to keep us all in the dark about this product.

You know, I think we tend to think that animal products are here solely for our purpose, that their milk and eggs and their flesh are here for us to drink and eat. But obviously

there's a lot more going on than that.

The chickens egg, like cows milk, is part of the female reproductive system.

Hens lay eggs for the purpose of having chicks.

The egg in

it's the byproduct of the menstrual cycle.

Unfertilized eggs, you know, drop out of the uterus and out of the body and if they're

fertilized they would produce embryos that would grow into babies etc. It's quite a different picture than the

egg industry paints. They don't really talk about it as the product of a

menstrual cycle of a chicken. I know it doesn't sound very appetizing but the

average American consumes about 250 eggs a year.

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