were the chicks first or the eggs

this mornin a question struck to my mind while i was helping my mom in the kitchen. it was friday morning, so mom was quite tensed coz it was getting late to do the lakshmi pooja and the breakfast was too not prepared.i was quite baffled whether it was the right time to ask that question.after babbling few times, i made my mind to finally ask it.'mom, many people say egg is vegetarian... why don we eat it?" coz we are totally vegan i was expecting my mom to flare up on my kiddish demand.but she cooly answered,' if you have to you are allowed,but you ll also have to carry the guilt of killing an to be animal'.making the complete advantage of my mom 's conversation, i replied,'but mom the egg has only few living cells, more of it is just protein..... and we drink cow's milk too. it comes from cow. isnt that suppose to be considered as non vegetarian!!??'. this time she was giving me a really angry look and said" drinking cow's milk doesn kill the cow, but eating an egg surelly put an end to the life of a living creature'.she scored one point, i was struggling to beat that one coz i wasn convinced yet. i asked my mom ' what if i had to eat an egg in future?'. she smiled and said' you don have to make future by ending another creature' future, do you?'. i was stunned when she said this. not because i couldn regress back but for the reason she was so true and i had been so selfish. after i realised the fact i felt so proud of myself of being a pure vegan... love u mom