Specifically: Chicken Eggs. SmithWife claims they are in the Dairy Group, and cites the location of eggs in the Grocery Store as her evidence. (The FDA groups eggs with meat, poultry, fish, dry beans and nuts). I guess all I’ve got to fall back on is “Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?”.
Eggs=Meat? I have a hard time swallowing that, so let’s det your opinions fellow Dopers. Maybe this belongs in MPSIMS, but I haven’t been able to get this off my mind all morning.
Yes, they are a meat- they are liquid chicken!
Mmmm…liquidy cows are scrumptious as well.
Just guessing but I suppose they are as much meat as hair is.
The FDA groups them with meat because, nutritionally, they are much like meat. That’s why nuts, including peanut butter, are also there.
Philisophically, I could go either way. Yes, they are meat, because, if fertilized and left to their own devices, they contain all the building blocks that will re-arrange themselves into meat (and bones, and beaks). No, they are not meat, because meat specifically meat muscle fiber, either skeletal or organ. To say they are meat because they could become meat is to say margarine is only one molecule away from plastic, and therefore dangerous to eat.
…because meat specifically **means **muscle fiber…
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Eggs are meat. Ask any pro-lifer.
Peace,
mangeorge
I thought margerine is dangerous to eat. 
Like the joke: how was the chicken served at the pro-lifer dinner? Sunny side up! Haw haw haw!
I don’t consider eggs to be meat. My justification? Most vegetarians are wiling to eat eggs, and if you don’t eat eggs, you’re well on your way to being vegan.
Eggs, therefore, are a vegetable.
Daniel
Well no, they’re liquid chicken food. At least 99.9% of what you find in an egg.
I dunno, I guess if dairy means anything (what does it mean anyway?) it refers to a food produced by an animal to feed its child…so eggs would be closer to that than meat.
FWIW, under kashrus rules, eggs are not meat.
Zev Steinhardt
For what it’s worth 2, m-w’s definition of dairy doesn’t mention eggs.
Further, their definition of meat does say, in part;
Get it? Shell. Hah!
Peace,
mangeorge
Dairy products are anything that is derived from the lactation secretions of a female mammel.
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I mean to add:
Eggs come from a bird’s cloaca, IIRC. It is in no way a dairy product. Not even close. It’s a meat, you’re eating a part of an animal.
Nor are they dairy; thet are parve.
Well, then, Mr. Smarty-pants, can you explain why eggs are next to the milk and butter at the grocery store? Hmmm? :dubious:
(Yes, I’m joking)
It’s not really part of an animal, anymore than milk is. I mean most of it. It may not be dairy but it’s closer in spirit than it is to meat…you’re eating baby chicken food.
Not really, just tastes nasty as hell. I prefer to have smaller amounts of real butter instead of a huge lashing of <blech> margarine.
Oh my gawd! Tortillas are meat?! 
I still think it’s closer to meat. A cup of milk will forever stay a cup of milk, a fertilized egg will become a chicken. So the egg’s purpose is really two-fold. Both to provide nurishment for the growing chicken, and to actually contain the cells that will becoem the chicken.
And what of cultures that eat partially developed bird-eggs? WOuld you claim those are more like milk or meat?
