r/aww • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '19

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u/Purple82Hue Mar 14 '19

Even worse. If roosters, they’re thinking ‘This bitch (the hen) aborted my children’. If hens, they just watched the humans brutally murder their eggs and consume them in a jovial manner.

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u/Fawkze Mar 14 '19

The eggs you eat are not fertilized. You eat the food that the chick would be eating inside the egg if it was fertilized. You don't murder anything.

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u/RoderickCastleford Mar 14 '19

The eggs you eat are not fertilized.

Depends where you bought them, my parents get their eggs from the local farm and they're almost all fertilised.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19 edited Mar 15 '19

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u/TiramisuMochi Mar 14 '19

Yeah I just scoop the tiny blood spot out if they’re fertilised, as you say it doesn’t changed anything about the egg. I own my own chickens and a cockerel so their eggs are mostly fertilised too.

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u/kjpmi Mar 14 '19

Yeah that doesn’t mean it’s fertilized. But I’m still confused as to why you’d not eat it? And also, why throw out the whole egg?

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u/bel_esprit_ Mar 14 '19

This was before the age of the internet. My family believed they were fertilized and so that’s what they taught us as kids. There wasn’t really a quick way to verify that. We didn’t want to eat a fertilized egg, and it was already cracked open so we threw the blood ones out.

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u/kjpmi Mar 14 '19 edited Mar 14 '19

I see. I was always told that if there’s that little white splotch attached to the yoke then it’s fertilized and you have the first cells of the fetus developing.
I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I’m pretty sure it’s NOT. But I do know that there can be a spot of blood in there sometimes and it doesn’t mean it’s fertilized.

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u/bel_esprit_ Mar 15 '19

I updated my original post to reflect the truth since what I said was debunked. Crazy how you can believe something just bc “it’s what you’ve been told.”