Question: Some people consider eggs to be vegetarian. I had a discussion with one such person who kept claiming that eggs are nothing but protein and carbohydrates. Could you give me some quotes from Prabhupada’s books or scientific reasoning that defeats this proposition?
Answer by Romapada Swami: People now-a-days consider even fetuses to be ‘non-living’! Following such a line of thought, time may come when one might even consider one’s own child as just ‘protein and carbohydrates’ and can therefore be killed and eaten! This is the horrific and pathetic state of affairs in Kali yuga, owing to the neglect of culture of spiritual knowledge and mass education of materialistic science. In such a context, where there is no understanding of the soul or of the need for spiritual cultivation, arguments on vegetarianism cannot accomplish much.
Our standards are based on the simple authority of the scriptures, as Prabhupada repeatedly says: human beings are meant to eat fruits, grains, vegetables and milk. These are in the mode of goodness and help us in spiritual advancement, and all other kinds of food are to be avoided.
