Eating eggs (Humans)

[gritsar]

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Or have a customer like I did that thought the eggs had gone bad because the shell had "turned" brown. I'm still laughing over that one.

 

[sandypaws]

2 days ago...i had a lady tell me her neighbor gave her some "farm fresh" eggs,,she was grossed out and threw the eggs away because the shell had turned GREEN!!!!!
i went to my fridge and pulled out a container with white, brown, cream and 3 green EEs eggs in it.. and showed her "NO.. these REALLY ARE FRESH, even tho they are green"

 

[Imp]

I did some checking with our purchasing specialist at work today. Pasteurized in the shell eggs are available commercially. They are about $2.20 per dozen for large. (That's a contract price) This is roughly double what we pay for unpastuerized in the shell eggs. I'm sure it would be significantly higher in a retail grocery store.

The reason most people don't get sick from eating soft eggs is it takes an amout of salmonella to make you sick. 1 bacteria will not do it. But if the egg has sat around for a long period of time,or was cracked, or it was used in a recipe and the food wasn't handled properly the 1 bacteria can multiply into millions that can make you sick. For most healthy people getting salmonella will only make you wish you were dead, but it can be really deadly to immune compromised individuals. For those of us who've been eating raw or soft eggs all our lives. Our bodies are used to salmonella and kill it before it enters our bodies and can make us sick.

Imp-Yea for white blood cells

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

My new neighbors who just moved into the house up the hill from me loves my chickens. The best thing about my neighbors is that they're willing to take care of my chickens while I'm gone. Mrs. Erikson wants a few hens and maybe a rooster to give them some fresh eggs. Plus I talked to one of my friends and she wants a few hens of her own. She wants to buy some chicks from me.

 

[Akane]

My stepdad's mom won't eat eggs if they've reached room temp on the counter. She throws them out and buys new ones. I haven't even bothered to offer her fresh eggs.

A few days ago I went looking for info on irradiated eggs. I didn't find much current information but I did find that it met great opposition and most people complained so at the time of the articles I was reading it did not catch on and most eggs were not treated in any way besides washing. In 2005 they passed a law to put a warning label (the one posted earlier in this thread) on proper handling and cooking of eggs to any that weren't irradiated. So if you see that label they probably aren't pasteurized/irradiated.

 

[chickenannie]

Humans would never have survived this long if eggs had to be pasteurized to make them safe!
Same with many other foods. I wish people would stop being so germ- and dirt-phobic. Honestly, I eat carrots and radishes direct from my garden after I brush the dirt off. And they were grown in DIRT just like all vegetables are and have been for millennia!
Did you know that it is IMPORTANT for humans to have LOTS of bacteria in their gut in order to digest food. Of course there is bad bacteria too, that you don't want in your gut, but it's not like a purified, sterile environment in there.

 

[Akane]

Things need to be treated now because look at where they come from... They don't come fresh from your garden. They come from huge factory farms with tons of animals or plants crammed into the smallest space possible producing tons of waste without enough people to check them for problems. Then they are packaged by people who don't care in ways that while convenient aren't always the best for preserving the food naturally and shipped through temperature extremes to stores where they sit on the shelves. That's way different than eating something fresh from your garden or backyard farm that you've put your own time into observing and caring for properly.

 

[Imp]

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chickenannie remember that there are 8 families grieving right now. Lost loved ones from eating peanut butter with salmonella.

Imp- most people survive Russian Roulette also.

 

[redhen]

okay, STILL confused here...because i swore that store eggs were somehow lightly cooked to make them safer for us....they did it on that dirty jobs show, with mike rowe...they showed the whole process...cleaning/washing and i really think i remember them putting them in a pasturizer type thing...no???

 

[Wifezilla]

Humans would never have survived this long if eggs had to be pasteurized to make them safe!
Same with many other foods. I wish people would stop being so germ- and dirt-phobic.

If your immune system doesn't have constant small challenges, it freaks out over hte wrong things.​