Why do people get so worked up about eating a fertilized egg?

[Sunny Side Up]

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And everyone, please forgive me if my remarks about certain vegetarians caused offense. I used to be one myself, many many mango seasons ago...my self back then would be so surprised to see how much I've changed.

 

[GrannySue]

My duck eggs go to a restaurant in town. He's delighted to have them.
The chef worked on a duck farm once so he knows how to use them in all sorts of situations.
Chances are that every egg I have is fertilized but of course that doesn't bother him at all.
Doesn't bother me either. I only eat duck eggs because I sell the few chicken eggs I get. No rooster so no possibility of fertilized chicken eggs.

 

[NashChic]

We play "the fertility game" when we're cracking eggs into the pan. Our little silkie roo has been moving up the ranks for the last few weeks. Since I can tell exactly which egg is who's by looking at it, we know who his favorite "girlfriends" are. I've never been able to taste the difference in fertile eggs. The "whole foods" store charges extra for eggs that are fertile. And check the site on here.... several people have hatched chicks from store-bought eggs that nobody ever dreamed would be fertile... just "free range" or "cage free"

 

[mener6896]

someone mention something about the hens only getting a vegetarian diet...is this possible? My hens love to eat all kinds of bugs and worms, wouldn't this be considered meat?

 

[mypicklebird]

great explanation.

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[gritsar]

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There are those that prefer to feed their chickens a vegetarian diet, but IMO it's doing the birds a disservice. Chickens are ominvores, nothing more than little velociraptors and they will eat all the meat they can find.

 

[wjallen05]

google "Balut"

OMG!​

 

[Amyable]

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Mental image of Jurassic Park x BYC.........

 

[Bettacreek]

Personally, I just cannot stomach the idea of eating a roo's sperm. I don't care if there's only one little sperm in one egg out of a ten egg omlette. I'm sure it doesn't taste any different, but, my mind cannot get around it. When I buy fresh eggs, I check them for the bullseye. If it's not there, I'm all good. They may or may not be fertilized (just super fresh so they don't have a chance to get a nice visable bullseye), but it settles my mind. If someone else made them for me and I didn't know that they were fertilized, I'd be fine. But, don't ever tell me that I ate chicken "juice". Why eat a sperm when you can get sperm-free eggs that taste just the same? Lol. Maybe, if I had been eating fertile eggs for my entire life, then just found out, then maybe, just maybe, I'd be able to continue, but, I'm not in that scenario.

 

[Plain Old Dee]

My son in law refuses to eat our home grown eggs because they come out of a chicken's backside. He'll only eat store bought eggs. And just where do store bought eggs come from? The dairy isle, of course!