Fear of doing something wrong

in simple terms, whilst rationally you can understand that battery farmed eggs are sterile, emotionally you still link eggs with life.

now, i don't want to complicate this for you, however, in the battery farming of eggs, chicks are sexed and all the male chicks killed, because they don't produce eggs. also, when the chickens are past their best for laying egg, they are also killed. so, indirectly, buying eggs does lead to the perpetuation of male chicks and chickens being killed. that, sadly, is the nature of the battery farming of eggs.

as a lacto-ovo-vegetarian of 28 years now, i've tried in the past to be fruitarian in order to be happier, from an ethical viewpoint, with my diet. i did it for a year previously, in a rather non-purist way, quite a few years ago but social pressures caused me to slip. i tried again only a year ago and lasted 6 months before i had to give up, because i tried to be too purist and crashed my B12, folate and protein.

at the moment my life has other far more pressing matters for me to deal with. dietary refinement just isn't a critical path. however, i'd like to make some improvements again ... one day.