> Are unfertilized eggs in people not considered alive?
While they remain cells within the human body, they are as much alive as any other cells—as alive as skin cells on your arm, tissue cells in your stomach, and bone cells in your leg. But they are not viable—capable of supporting life on their own.
Hen’s eggs in a carton at the grocery store are no longer inside a living body that supports them. They haven’t died. They have never become alive in the sense of being a viable organism. They are unfertilized and unborn.
The fruits and vegetables aren’t alive; they are separated from the plant that supports them and takes in nourishment. They can’t do this themselves and will rot even if you try to feed them. They are not viable.
They may contain seeds (a pit, a bean, a kernel, etc.) that are capable of germinating (and being supported temporarily by the flesh of the fruit). A plant has this capability. An animal that is high enough in the chain to reproduce sexually doesn’t have a seed until a male and a female cell unite (= fertilization) to create one. No fertilization, no zygote, hence no seed, and hence not alive. The same is true of the tissue that a woman sloughs off when she has her period: not alive. Not fertlized.