Well yeah but…the eggs we eat aren’t fertilized. They’re going to stay eggs no matter what. And while you are consuming…err…half of however many chromosomes it takes to make a chicken…the overwhelming majority of the substance you are eating when you’re eating an egg is the chicken food. Chicken placenta essentially. Not actual chicken. Regardless of what it was intended to be.
As for partially developed birds…then that’s bird flesh. So, yeah that would be meat.
It occures to me, maybe if the dairy comparision doesn’t work, it’s more like a blow job. And we’ve already had threads on why vegetarians think it’s ok to swallow .
I never ate balut (too much a pussy) but I often ate penoy. I was told it was like balut, but no embryo. Tasted a lot like boiled egg to me. I was usually full of local rum or San Miguel at the time, so I’m not real sure what it was. It was good, though.
Also good was the BBQ seagull.
Look at it this way – baby cows drink milk before they are weaned. Baby chickens live off the yolk until they are “weaned”, i.e. eat solid food after hatching. In both cases the milk/yolk is meant to nourish the baby animal, and don’t require killing a living being, so they’re classed together as the same “type” of food.
The point of my sloppy attempt at humor was that dairy comes only from cows, so if eggs come from cows (which would validate them as dairy), the cows must be, er, unusual.
Warning:
If you’re feeling around for eggs back there on a large bovine animal, you best be real sure it is a cow and not a bull. Otherwise you’ll get hurt, or make a friend for life. Maybe both!
To expand (sort of) on the above, I remember this. Mom would “let” me squish the bag. I was five in 1950 when the yellow margarine ban was pretty much lifted. I think Nucoa becam the elite margarine as I got older.
So, is margarine dairy?
Yeah. Goat cows, yak cows, horse cows, and buffalo cows.
All of which lactate. None of which lay eggs. Few of which exhibit their wares in my local market.
Leave me alone. I’m pondering the morality of marketing fertile eggs.
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Well, the original dietary laws within the Church regarding abstinence referred specifically to “flesh meat” and indicated the muscle of warm-blooded animals (even though there was not yet a scientific description of endothermy). While there was not yet a “scientific” identification of “warm blooded,” people were smart enough to recognize that animals were not all alike. Cold-blooded critters such as turtles, frogs, lizards, snakes, and, of course, fish, were all outside the proscribed animals for Friday abstinence in many jurisdictions. (Dietary rules differed from province to province (and sometimes diocese to diocese) for the first several hundred years and most of the Eastern Rites (both Orthodox and Catholic) continue to have somewhat different rules than the Roman Catholics.)
The Roman Catholics do not consider eggs to be dairy, but then, the Roman rite does not have dietary laws regarding dairy products, so it is not an issue, there.
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