Monday, November 28, 2011
Eating Eggs
This bog was inspired the book I am reading, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, and my breakfast. My sister left to go back to school this afternoon. My parents prepared a big family breakfast for her. We had bagels, eggs, fruit, and hash brown potatoes. I had some of everything. Breakfast was more like brunch. In the morning, before brunch, I had time to write another blog. I blogged about the internal struggle Foer and I have about which animals can be eaten and which can’t. All inspired by his book. I sat down with my family and began to eat. My thoughts were still among the blog I just wrote. I looked down at my plate of eggs and felt no guilt because the eggs we eat are not fertilized. I am 100% confident that there are no embryos in my eggs. I did not take any lives by eating this breakfast. Then I started to think about how long people have eaten eggs. I was assuming for a very long time. I’m sure the early settlers ate eggs. Then a stomach curling thought came into my head. The technology to produce unfertilized eggs has not always been around…did people used to eat the chicken embryos? I find that so disturbing. They were literally eating under developed baby chickens! My question is when did this stop? When did people decide that it isn’t right to eat chicken embryos? Why did people stop? What was the ultimate determining factor? I would not eat a chicken embryo. That is a chicken that has not even been born. Why would I eat meat? That is from animals that were alive! Why don’t I feel as disgusted as I did about the unborn animals, than I do about the born ones? When did one become okay? To anyone who reads this……would you eat a chicken embryo?
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Interesting commentary especially in light of what you are saying about abortion above. Good work on your blog overall Leah but you're missing the final death penalty post.
ReplyDeleteI think I would be morally fine eating a chicken embryo (if it's like a normal egg but it's been fertilized) because I eat chicken, so either way I'm eating the animal. If you're really wondering about when it became okay to eat dead animals it's probably something that started when people needed all available food to survive. Do you think people should no longer eat meat now that there's plenty of other food available?
ReplyDeleteI think that people should continue to eat meat because it is full of protein and important nutrients for growth and development. My problem lies with the availability of meat. It is harvested in industrial quality yet it has a short shelf life so many of the animals that we slaughter for food are not being consumed. I think that meat would be greater appreciated and less wasted if meat was less available.
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