Vegetarian Eggs at Jewel, Wicker Park, Chicago
Does this seem odd to anyone else?
Vegetarian Eggs
July 16th, 2004 · 17 Comments
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that they are cage free and vegetarian? very much so.
no. i mean i guess that it’s that the chickens are fed vegetables? my first thought is vegan and that vegans don’t eat eggs.. although i know some vegetarians do. and then also that eggs are vegetables. i dont know. i totally “get” it.. but at first it was a mind boggle.
How very confusing… vegetarian eggs are actually eggs, but vegetarian cheese, milk, meat,etc. are usually soy…
I wonder if they sell Atkins eggs, where the chickens were only fed protein?
that is just ridiculous. i thought maybe they were chocolate eggs–vegetarian chocolate eggs. Mmmmmm, how long til easter?
I’m guessing it means the chickens aren’t fed animal protein. Is there a difference between cage free and free range?
i wonder if the eggs taste any different
Good question, and how much “better” would they have to taste to shell out the extra $$? I’ve never been able to taste any difference between organic food and their regular counterparts.
I’ve been eating those for about 6 months now. You’ll be amazed at how much better they are than regular eggs – they really do taste different. They remind me of the farm eggs my family used to get when we lived in London. The yolks are also much much yellower bordering on orange.
Cage Free Vegetarian Eggs (there’s also a cage free kind) does indeed me that they’re free-range and that they are fed only organic non-animal feed.
They’re so effin’ good. Pick up a pack and try em out. Big difference.
I entered your web-site looking for info about foods that help nuturalize uric acid. Now that I’ve read a few of the comments, I would like to add one of my own. The term vegetarian eggs has nothing to do with a vegetarian diet. It means that the chickens are fed whole grain–not the other feed that that most chickens get. (fish by-products…animal by-products–flavored paper and even saw-dust.)
The cage-free eggs taste so much better and have a lighter consistency. The extra $$ is worth the extra good tasting product.
Barb
Only a few days ago, while grocery shopping, I stopped by the eggs to grab a dozen, when I noticed how differently eggs are labeled lately. Ok…I could tollerate the cage free, free roaming, yada yada yada…but then my eyes landed on “Vegetarian Eggs”. After pausing and standing there perplexed as my mind tried to comprehend…I burst out laughing right there in the store! Oh my Lord!!!…..as I looked around at the different egg labels…I realized just how stupid they think the consumer really is! One excuse after another to raise the price of eggs!!Ok…so they feed them only the finest natural grains and ingredients…but they are still eggs!Looked like someone misusing a label to me!
I have concluded that Vegetarians somewhere along the line experienced a falling away of their faithful followers, where someone decided they wanted to break the rules and make their own vegetarian diet…and the next thing you know…there’s all kinds of “Vegetarian” Sects. Totally adulterating what being “Vegetarian” was meant to be in it’s early purest form. Read the following and see what I mean….This was obtained from the internet…
Vegetarian Varieties
The Institute of Food Technologists, in the July 1991 issue of its journal, Food Technology, describes six types of vegetarians. They are listed here by degree of exclusion of animal foods and by the foods included in the diet:
* semi-vegetarian–dairy foods, eggs, chicken, and fish, but no other animal flesh
* pesco-vegetarian–dairy foods, eggs, and fish, but no other animal flesh
* lacto-ovo-vegetarian–dairy foods and eggs, but no animal flesh
* lacto-vegetarian–dairy foods, but no animal flesh or eggs
* ovo-vegetarian–eggs, but no dairy foods or animal flesh
* vegan–no animal foods of any type.
Hmmmmmm…….since I do eat veggies on occasion, but only fresh green ones (broccoli, green beans, spinich)…I should start my own group…Just gotta think of a good name…Like Chloro-Vegetarian…for one who consumes only green vegetables in an otherwise normal diet that includes meat!
Where to vegetarian eggs come from?
jewel?
This is a great web sight! A friend and I were talking about eggs. I have been vegetarian
“Lacto-ovo” for 17 years and considering transitioning to a vegan diet. She says that not all eggs are ment to become chickens…???Any insight? or is she living in crazytown. Oh! anyone who buys free range-cage free eggs from vegetarian fed hens are awesome and are helping the world to become a better place! conventional
eggs farms are horrific places and should be against the law! and think about the crap they feed the chickens then! expect us to eat! think before you buy! check out PETA.org and learn more about the chicken and egg industry. Live well Shelly
THIS IS THE MOST RETARDED THING I’VE EVER HEARD OF. EGG INNOVATIONS! OK WHATS NEXT? PEOPLE WRITING ABOUT EGGS?
MIKE ORMES HAMMOND INDIANA
This is stupid, and the people falling for this are idiots (sorry). The terms ‘free-range’ and ‘vegetarian’ are mutually exclusive. I raise some chickens, and I will say that farm eggs are MUCH better than supermarket eggs. I’ve never called my chickens ‘free range’, but they do rome around the farm all day, so I guess they are. I only feed my chickens a mixture of corn and soybeans, so by their definition I guess I could call them vegetarian. However, CHICKENS LOVE BUGS AND WORMS! Any chicken outdoors will eat bugs and worms for sure. That’s the best thing about having chickens on the farm. It is the bug and worm content in the diet that makes those yolks have so much color and the eggs so much flavor. Chickens indoors will still eat bugs. Bugs will come through the ventilation or even in the grain. Anyone believing this hype is being taken for a fool (sorry).
Just came across this page by accident, I know it’s a few years old, but thought I’d post anyway. I don’t know if the terminology used is very different in the states (I’m in the UK); over here I’ve never seen eggs marketed as being specifically vegetarian. Eggs are suitable for vegetarians if they aren’t fertilized eggs (I thought this was obvious, but seems to cause a lot of confusion). However, when you buy them, you can’t tell if they are vegetarian or not. You can only tell once you’ve cracked the egg and are about to cook it (which is inconveniently late, really) – then you can see if it has the beginnings of a bird in it (and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you may well have seen it and not realised what it was. It doesn’t look like a bird or anything, usually it’s no more than a few strands of white stuff). So it’s actually pretty good to see eggs sold as vegetarian, so people know what they’re buying. As for the earlier posts about the chickens’ diets, like I said, I don’t know if they use different terminology in the US, maybe it does mean feeding the chickens different stuff.
These taste good! I just bought some today for $1.69. Not bad IMO. I agree about those egg farms where they mass produce eggs. I read that at one egg farm, they cram chickens together so tight that they can’t move around. Their feet grow around the wire mesh. Since living under these conditions makes them irritable, they peck at each other and at the farmers. To solve this problem their beaks are cut off. So for me, I’m going with the cage free.