Comments on: What snake is a vegetarian http://pet-snakes.com/vegetarian-snakes?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vegetarian-snakes Guide to caring for and keeping snakes as pets Thu, 03 May 2012 11:30:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: snkpks http://pet-snakes.com/vegetarian-snakes/comment-page-1#comment-1390 snkpks Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:42:00 +0000 http://pet-snakes.com/?p=358#comment-1390 Vegetarians often eat more than just fruits and vegetables--vegetarianism may include the consumption of eggs. Unfertilized/Undeveloped eggs are not meat. Meat is the flesh of an animal, whereas milk and eggs are animal byproducts.   The most common type of vegetarianism is ovo-lacto-vegetarianism; it is usually assumed that when someone refers to themselves as vegetarian rather than vegan, that they eat animal byproducts.[1] If there is a snake that can healthily survive on unfertilized eggs and no meat (it looks like Dasypeltis scabra, or the egg-eating snake, is a candidate), [2] then it would be considered a vegetarian snake. Also note that fertilized eggs sold for human consumption have little nutritional difference then unfertilized eggs. The embryos do not develop unless they are incubated; in the U.S. food industry it is required that they are kept refrigerated. [3] I'm unsure at what point a developing embryo inside of an egg would be considered meat, but perhaps one delineation would be once it has developed muscle fibers. [1] http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vegetarian-diet/HQ01596 [2] http://www.repvet.co.za/snakes_caresheet_eggeaters_dasypeltisscabra.php [3] http://www.chow.com/food-news/54729/whats-the-difference-between-fertilized-and-unfertilized-eggs/ Vegetarians often eat more than just fruits and
vegetables–vegetarianism may include the consumption of eggs. Unfertilized/Undeveloped eggs
are not meat. Meat is the flesh of an animal, whereas milk and eggs are
animal byproducts.   The most common type of vegetarianism is ovo-lacto-vegetarianism; it is usually assumed that when someone refers to themselves as vegetarian rather than vegan, that they eat animal byproducts.[1]

If there is a snake that can healthily survive on
unfertilized eggs and no meat (it looks like Dasypeltis scabra, or the
egg-eating snake, is a candidate), [2] then it would be considered a
vegetarian snake.

Also note that fertilized eggs sold for human consumption have little
nutritional difference then unfertilized eggs. The embryos do not
develop unless they are incubated; in the U.S. food industry it is required that they are kept
refrigerated. [3] I’m unsure at what point a developing embryo inside of an
egg would be considered meat, but perhaps one delineation would be once it has developed muscle
fibers.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vegetarian-diet/HQ01596
[2] http://www.repvet.co.za/snakes_caresheet_eggeaters_dasypeltisscabra.php
[3] http://www.chow.com/food-news/54729/whats-the-difference-between-fertilized-and-unfertilized-eggs/

]]> By: Pet Snakes http://pet-snakes.com/vegetarian-snakes/comment-page-1#comment-1350 Pet Snakes Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:27:00 +0000 http://pet-snakes.com/?p=358#comment-1350 Wrong. Wrong.

]]> By: Ciafer http://pet-snakes.com/vegetarian-snakes/comment-page-1#comment-1348 Ciafer Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:39:00 +0000 http://pet-snakes.com/?p=358#comment-1348 For anyone who stumbles on this page reading previous comments, eggs are vegetarian.  There are variants of vegetarian that exclude things such as egg and dairy (e.g. vegan).  Fish and meat of any kind would not be vegetarian.  If there is a snake that consumes no meat or insects, but eggs, it would be a vegetarian snake. For anyone who stumbles on this page reading previous comments, eggs are vegetarian.  There are variants of vegetarian that exclude things such as egg and dairy (e.g. vegan).  Fish and meat of any kind would not be vegetarian. 

If there is a snake that consumes no meat or insects, but eggs, it would be a vegetarian snake.

]]> By: Pet Snakes http://pet-snakes.com/vegetarian-snakes/comment-page-1#comment-1281 Pet Snakes Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:17:00 +0000 http://pet-snakes.com/?p=358#comment-1281 By who? By who?

]]> By: CN http://pet-snakes.com/vegetarian-snakes/comment-page-1#comment-1279 CN Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:27:00 +0000 http://pet-snakes.com/?p=358#comment-1279 I'm quite sure. Eggs are considered vegetarian... why has no one acknowledged that? I’m quite sure. Eggs are considered vegetarian… why has no one acknowledged that?

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