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

[kees]

I gave some eggs to some of my daughter's friends. One girl told her that her parents threw out theirs because there was a baby chick inside. I collect my eggs on a daily basis!

Suzy

 

[Bettacreek]

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I didn't look at the response as rude. I looked at it as common sense. You are entitled to your opinion, but your reason is just plain silly. You are no more eating a rooster sperm then you would be eating a bull's sperm if you ate a steak, or a fish sperm if you ate caviar. The same could be said for plants.

Once again, before the wrath begins, you are entitled to your opinion, but if you are you are unwilling to hear/read the response...don't post. By calling the response rude, you are in fact acting as you have accused. You believe you would be eating Roo sperm, the responder does not...two differing opinions. To each their own.

Difference being that I didn't call anyone sick for eating a roo sperm each time they ate a fertilized egg. But whatever. I'll stick to not eating fertilized eggs and if someone wants to insult me for it, then they're not worth discussing it with anyways.

 

[gritsar]

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Collect your eggs on a daily basis and you've got nothing to worry about.

 

[Kittymomma]

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Not to pile on here--when I was pregnant (didn't even know yet) I fried an egg for breakfast, though ewwww, nasty little chicken embryo, and dumped in the garbage. Same thing happened with my second child. I couldn't stand the sight or smell of eggs while I was pregnant. Anyhow, I get being grossed out about something that isn't really rational. What I don't understand about the rooster sperm thing though is why that is more gross then hen ovum?

 

[3goodeggs]

I home school and was going to do an embryology lab with my son. I think for the sake of keeping him fed, we will skip that and let public high school do the deed. I grew up with a dotty mom that didn't quite get that the 'Found" eggs we probably best left with the hen. I saw a lot of stuff at a tender age, and I am good with a fertilized egg. A friend makes sure her two chickens have fertilized eggs because she heard that they have more protein. I am thinking a cell's worth. I can't eat snails. Slugs creep me out. I can't put my finger on why. They just do. Flat worms too. I got chills just thinking about them. If you don't want to eat fertilized eggs, that's fine. I won't eat anything that leaves a slime trail. eeeh.

 

[PeepsInc]

Food for thought. Fertile eggs are one of the things Kosher Jews cant eat.

 

[Dar]

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Very interesting thanks...

ya learn something new everyday

 

[Bettacreek]

What I don't understand about the rooster sperm thing though is why that is more gross then hen ovum?

Good question actually. Probably that I've been raised eating eggs, but the sperm is not necessary in order to eat them. People from other countries probably think that we're silly because we (in general) won't eat fried rat-ka-bobs or partially formed eggs or whatever. It's just in how you're raised.​

 

[Akane]

I can somewhat understand those that take a moral stance and say once the sperm is there it's a chick instead of just an egg. Somewhat... I still don't care myself since it has not grown and has no more awareness than it did with one less bit of dna. I don't quite understand just not wanting to eat an egg with a piece of sperm in it though. It's protein the same as anything else and it's so tiny you can't even see it. We probably don't want to know all the little microscopic bits that make up some of our other foods. Have you heard how many spiders you swallow without your knowledge in your lifetime?

Do you really want to know what's living on homegrown vegetables? You can't see it and it can't harm you so it doesn't bother me.

 

[redhen]

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OOh dear..ANY thing but spiders...